I just got back into using live, Version 7. started from Version 4....paid for the upgrade as i have time to get back into music production yay.... anyway
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to make a track,just one or two Vsts max out the cpu and the playback of audio at various points in the track suddenly crawl along.
I have all the usual things turned off, firewall,wireless,unplugged external drives etc
Also watching the video on the Ableton website of the guy making a track i noticed his cpu hitting over 50% and he was only using very basic instruments and audio tracks with some effects.
I love ableton for the way i can sketch out tracks but i don't want to go back using version 4/5 to get it running smooth.
Im using a PC, office xp with dual core and 2 gig ram.
Vsts im using are
Massive
Absynth
String Stuido
I tried the same type of project in Samplitude 10 demo and i had
2xmassive
2xabsynth
1xstring studio
5xaudio
and the cpu/audio playback was fine.