LIVE 4 PERFORMANCE TEST

feynman · Post by **feynman** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:13 am

Hi,

if it sounds good - it is good. Isn't that benchmarking a bit, well, superfluous? Check some of http://www.ee.oulu.fi/%7Esakoivik/100minutes.html tracks. It''s not the speed - it's the creativity, no?

drush · Post by **drush** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:58 pm

quite frequently the speed (or, headroom) breeds creativity.

theofficials · Post by **theofficials** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:39 pm

1) 32% (peak value, average 28%)
2) Desktop, Own Build DAW
3) XP Pro +l SP2
4) Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz
5) 512 MB RAM (Corsair DDR SDRAM [PC3200])
6) SBLive using KX drivers - KX ASIO
7) 7200 rpm (200GB S-ATA) Western Digital with 8mb cache.

Sample Rate set @ 512 samples

Input + Output = 11ms thus overall latency = 22ms..

Was impossible for me to get any closer to 0ms latency - when I lowered the sample rate dropped aswell from 512 to 256..

*off to compare now*

pix · Post by **pix** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:43 am

My "old" P4-M fried and got this new PC:

1) 18-20%
2)Sager NP3790
3)XP Home
4)Dothan 755 (centrino 2GHz)
5)1 Gb DDR PC2700 (333MHz)
6)echo indigo i/o
7)60Gb 7200rpm 8mb cache

It flyes!!!!!!

blafferen · Post by **blafferen** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:11 am

I have just tested my new laptop, which is running XP sp2, and I have made some os tweaks from musicXP.net,

My results with live 4.04 demo, and a latency of 528 samples(wasnt able to get exactly 512) with asio driver(asio2ks):

1) 22%
2) Compal cl56
3) Windows XP Pro sp2
4) Pentium M 735 1.7ghz
5) 512 MB Ram, pc3200
6) Realtek onboard sound with Asio driver(Asio2ks)
7) 7200RPM HD

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:25 pm

blafferen wrote:I have just tested my new laptop, which is running XP sp2, and I have made some os tweaks from musicXP.net,

My results with live 4.04 demo, and a latency of 528 samples(wasnt able to get exactly 512) with asio driver(asio2ks):

you can change the value with the arrow keys to press up or down the desired setting

supster · Post by **supster** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:34 pm

1) Min = 33% / Max = 37% (spikes briefly) Avg = 35%

2) PC Desktop, E-Machines, VIA Chipset

3) XP SP2

4) Athlon 2600

5) 1 GB

6) M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 PCI - Edirol UA-25 USB (for input + headphones - Asio4all driver (disabled onboard sound)

7) 7200 RPM Internal

Looks like I'm a tad high for what my system should be ... about 5% ... wondering why ..

Aural Chaos · Post by **Aural Chaos** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:44 pm

1) avg 42%

2) Dell Inspiron 8200

3) XP SP2

4) P4 1.8 GHz

5) 640 MB

6) Indigo I/O (but about the same CPU% with onboard+ ASIO4ALL)

djwaxx · Post by **djwaxx** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:14 pm

1) 26%
2) AOpen 1555M Laptop
3) Win XP Pro SP2
4) Pentium M 1.5 gHz
5) 1024 Mb 333 mHz
6) Stock Realtek
7) 5400 rpm 40 Gb Toshiba

rsagevik · Post by **rsagevik** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:59 pm

1) 19%
2) Zepto Znote 4200 Laptop
3) Win XP Pro SP2
4) Pentium M 2 gHz
5) 1024
6) FW M-Audio Audiophile
7) 7200 rpm IBM

parma · Post by **parma** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:03 am

1) 47% peak
2) Mac G4
3) 10.3.6
4) Motorola PowerPC G4 7455B 1.47GHz
5) 1.5 GB SDRAM PC133
6) stock
7) 7200rpm

I replaced Live's reverb with Apple's with similar settings and the CPU peaked at 37% with no difference in sound quality to my untrained ears. That's kinda good news I guess. However, I wouldn't mind if Ableton optimized Live for the Mac just a wee bit more

poshook · Post by **poshook** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:17 pm

1) 26%
2) PC Desktop
3) WinXP SP2
4) AthlonXP 2700+
5) 1GB RAM 333MHz
6) Delta66 with ASIO
7) 7200 rpm Seagate

reincarnationfish · Post by **reincarnationfish** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:39 pm

1) 106% System totally ground to a halt. It was hell to get it to stop playing, let me tell you.
2) Dell Dimension 2400
3) WinXP SP2
4) Celeron 2400
5) 512
6) Tascam US 122
7) 5400

Well, my system practically fell over when trying to play this file. I didn't expect much, but I didn't expect it would be that bad. Having said that, the PC I'm using was cheap as chips and it does comfortably outperform the machine I replaced with it, so I shouldn't complain.

drush · Post by **drush** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:40 am

celeron.....

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 3:34 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % = 20% ( occasional 21% blips)
2) Laptop = asus M6ne custom from nusystems
3) XP home
4) CPU Make Model and Speed = Dothan 2.0
5) Amount of Ram= 512meg
6) Soundcard = Echo indigo DJ
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed = 7200