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High CPU utilisation...

Post by Caz » Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:22 pm

It must be that more Live 4.01 have the same issue... really high CPU util with just 3 or 4 softsynths loaded and a couple of basic (Ableton) effects on some Audio tracks and you hit 100%.... and this on a dual-processor 1.25Mhz G4 (Mac OS X 10.3.5) with more than 1 Gig of RAM.... setting the latency on my m-audio 2496 doesn't help much, even if you put the latency to 25ms or so....

Any tips....? Or do we just have to live with it....?

Thanks! Btw Live 4 is great!
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high cpu

Post by carllarkos » Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:59 am

Hello


Mines the same and i am running windows xp with 3g prossesor and 1g ram.Live 3 was ok but not 4
Dell 3.0ghz pentium 4. 1gig ram.XP. audiophille 24/96 sound card. Reasons/live rewired
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Post by cpu » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:47 am

well, i can verify this, L4 needs more power than L3. But this only shown in the taskmanager, not in the Live CPU-Meter. But the most "wonder" is, even if the TM shows 100% i can drag some plugs anymore :?
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Post by guatamaham » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:40 pm

ditto. it's the same on my 1.33Ghz Pbook w/1.25GB of RAM. I can load a few soft synths and effects and that's about it. the Ableton reverb alone sucks up about 10-15% CPU (depending on its configuration)! that seems much worse than 3, I could load a lot of effects in 3 before it choked.
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hoho

Post by Spacerboy » Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:58 pm

i use live on a p2-266MHz and i have no problems at all
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Re: hoho

Post by EnjoyRC » Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:22 pm

Spacerboy wrote:i use live on a p2-266MHz and i have no problems at all
Just like the performance I get on my Intel 286 w/8MB ram? Oh, some of you are too young to remember 286's and 386's.
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Post by hoffman2k » Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:36 pm

yeah. maybe it's an illusion but i believe the beta's consumed less.
Keep in mind that you can save alot of cpu by turning off filters, lfo's and such you do not use anyway.
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Re: hoho

Post by guatamaham » Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:47 am

Spacerboy wrote:i use live on a p2-266MHz and i have no problems at all
you must have a magic machine, then. the Live 4 specs claim it won't even run on that machine (will windows 98 even run on that machine?), let alone without problems.
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winME

Post by Spacerboy » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:46 am

i use a modified winME version. runs really well...
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Re: winME

Post by guatamaham » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:22 pm

Spacerboy wrote:i use a modified winME version. runs really well...
weird. but it's good to hear that it's working out for someone. FWIW, I just ran some tests and on my machine (1.33Ghz Pbook) Live will run at most 4 instances of Reaktor while Tracktion (an audio/MIDI sequencer costing only $80) can easily run 6 with room to spare for some VST effects. so obviously Live 4 is not as efficient as it could be.
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Re: hoho

Post by mike holiday » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:17 pm

EnjoyRC wrote:
Spacerboy wrote:i use live on a p2-266MHz and i have no problems at all
Just like the performance I get on my Intel 286 w/8MB ram? Oh, some of you are too young to remember 286's and 386's.
what about the 8088's?
and TAG BBS's?
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man

Post by sniffio » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:08 pm

Yap it goes pretty much to 100%.
With great random audio drop outs.
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Post by Nub » Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:20 pm

I think it'saccepted that there is a CPU issue with Live 4.x, be it with the Live CPU meter or the actual CPU consumption, the fact that there is a difference between the two, or the fact that it's just too plain high compared to 3.x for an unknown but vocal number of users!

Can I suggest emailing Ableton direct with this problem and providing useful data to them on platform etc, I did and they are working on it.

Hopefully we will have a solution soon.

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h

Post by sniffio » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:36 pm

thx.
plz check out about the random audio dropouts in OSX.
Watch out for that !
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Re: hoho

Post by mike holiday » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:30 pm

[/quote]

Just like the performance I get on my Intel 286 w/8MB ram? Oh, some of you are too young to remember 286's and 386's.[/quote]

i remember my 8088
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