Audio Breaking up

earwaves · Post by **earwaves** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:15 pm

I have Mac iBook 700 mhz G3 maching...running 10.3
Ableton 3 ran pretty well, very well, actually.
Ableton 4 is running clunky.

After 1-2 MIDI tracks and 1-2 audio tracks, my machine starts choking. The CPU is actaully only running at 10-20% at most. Normally, this wouldn't seem to be a problem.

Any tips on getting 4 to run smoother?
Is it the size of sample buffer?
Any suggestions would be helpful.

Dwight. :(

ekko · Post by **ekko** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:21 pm

Ok...so it's not just me...

CPU Meter around 35%...audio breaking up.

Other times CPU meter has hit 75% with no problems.

What gives?

iMac G4/800 1 gig Ram 10.2.8

philcurtis · Post by **philcurtis** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:30 am

I have the same problem, and I'm on a 1.25 Aluminum PB. I do have a lot of disabled plugs in my autoload, but it's breaking up when the meter is around 40%. Especially when launching new clips. Especially when launching a clip for the first time.

I tend to think that there are CPU spikes that happen faster than is registered on the CPU meter.

I have a thing that I'm working on where I had 4 audioinstruments. I had some problems, but the problems got worse once I bounced to audio. Now the audio causes all kinds of choking.

ekko · Post by **ekko** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:42 am

The other weird thing that happens is that a song will be fine, with no breaking up, and then I'll save and close it. Upon reopening, even if immediately after closing it, it completely breaks up, with no changes at all made to the file.

halo370 · Post by **halo370** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:56 am

I have also experienced this problem. I will load up some tracks and it will glitch after about 20 bars or so. My Cpu meter doesn't show that it sholuld be choking.

G4 dual 1ghz OSX 10.2.8 M-audio delta 1010

theofficials · Post by **theofficials** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:18 pm

Pretty sure that the high CPU issue is quite pertinant with LiVE4 / here on the forum judging from previous posts I've read already.

For me, no matter how many apps/unwanted services I close and how specific I am with automating VST on/off useage within the seqencer window and how many times I defrag (daily atm) I'm still experiencing real heavy audio breakup and huuge overload in general.

Laying down chords i.e anything more than simply a 1 note polyphony b-line seems to create havoc aswell with LiVE. Coupled with that also is the fact that using the NEW plugins for chords is a no no.

I'm sure the team are more than aware of this issue re: cpu useage. I shalln't harp on about it anymore.. too many negative's would ruin my day. Just helpful pointers from a user hopefully.

Thanks ABLETON AG and Hi to all the members here aswell.

sniffio · Post by **sniffio** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:52 pm

This is happening to me and many many people.
Come on ableton, OSX users need serious help.
WE cannnot recommend the software to OSX users without this being fixed.
come on !

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