LIVE 4 PERFORMANCE TEST

Discuss music production with Ableton Live.
detroitechno
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Post by detroitechno » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:59 pm

monocromo wrote:20% - PIII 700 mhz, 128mb ram, 20gb at 5400 rpm, sbLive w/ kx drivers, w2k pro.


Believe it or not.
impossible. nice try though. you get a F- for effort.
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Post by FaX-01 » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:37 am

monocromo wrote:20% - PIII 700 mhz, 128mb ram, 20gb at 5400 rpm, sbLive w/ kx drivers, w2k pro.


Believe it or not.
That is a load of utter Gobbshite - I scored 21% fluctuating to 23% max on a 3.2ghz H/T P4 i865 1gig ram etc etc .
So you're PIII 700mhz has more processing power yawn.
There's no way known that would even test lower than a G4 1.5ghz P/B I'm afraid.
What did you do?
Delete all the samples and not have any effects running and un route the multi outputs from the impulse :roll: .
Dream on dude.
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CPU TEST

Post by RE-Wirez » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:43 am

1) 33% (peak at 34%)
2) Custom desktop. gigabyte GA-7vt600 L
3) Windows XP PRO (SP2)
4) AMD ATHLON 2000+
5) 512MB Ram, PC-2700 (333 Mhz)
6) TERRATEC DMX6 Fire (With MME/DX Driver)
7) 7200rpm HD 200 gb S-ATA (Maxtor)

Does my XP 2000+ runs faster than P IV 2.8?????????????????

:D

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Re: CPU TEST

Post by AdamJay » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:11 pm

RE-Wirez wrote:
Does my XP 2000+ runs faster than P IV 2.8?????????????????

:D
not if your peaks are 34%. more on par with an Athlon 2400.
still great performance though =)

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Post by brainray » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:18 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter = 33% peak
2) G5 Desktop 1.8 GHz DP (first generation)
3) Operating System = OS X 10.3.7
4) CPU Make Model and Speed = G5 DP 1.8 GHz, 900 MHz FSB
5) Amount of Ram 1 GB
6) MOTU PCI 424 with 2408 interface
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed = 7200 rpm



1) Ableton Live CPU Meter = 68% peak
2) Powerbook Titanium 1 GHz
3) Operating System OS X 10.3.7
4) CPU Make Model and Speed = G4 @ 1 GHz (with 3rd level cache)
5) Amount of Ram =1 GB / Speed of Ram 133 MHz
6) Soundcard = internal
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed 4200 rpm

Going to buy a Live dedicated notebook with AMD next week and will post the results then.

Cheers

Ray

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Post by ekko » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:23 pm

I have an older machine, so I never bothered to run this as I knew it would probably bring it to its knees, but it held its own quite well, much to my surprise...

1) 65% if I turn the Reverb off. 111% if it's on.
2) Desktop iMac G4 17" widescreen (the "desklamp" model from 2002)
3) 10.3.7 (surprise to me, I thought I grabbed 10.3.8 already)
4) 800 Mhz, yeah baby. :)
5) 768 MB ram
6) Motu 828 (1st generation)
7) I don't know the HD speed for certain


So, yeah...that Reverb is a killer. Turning it off knocked the CPU meter down to about 65% with no audio glitches or stutters. Turning it on caused all hell to break loose. Oh well.

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Post by milian » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:21 pm

1) PEAK: 18%
2) EPoX EP-9NDA3J Motherboard Socket 939 ($99)
3) Win XP Pro SP2
4) AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8GHz) overclocked to 2.4GHz (~$160)
5) 2 x 512MB Kingmax @ 446DDR
6) E-MU 1212m
7) Western Digital 120Gig Hard Drive

Note: The CPU only needed 0.025 extra voltage to run at 2.4GHz.
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Post by Macrostructure » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:47 pm

1) 37%
2) Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop
3) XP SP2
4) P4 2.2GHz
5) 512 Mb
6) firewire audiophile
7) 4200rpm

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Post by SoLiS » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:15 pm

monocromo wrote:20% - PIII 700 mhz, 128mb ram, 20gb at 5400 rpm, sbLive w/ kx drivers, w2k pro.


Believe it or not.
OK, I think I've solved this one:

Did you press play?

detroitechno
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Post by detroitechno » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:19 pm

milian wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 18%
2) EPoX EP-9NDA3J Motherboard Socket 939
3) Win XP Pro SP2
4) AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8GHz) overclocked to 2.4GHz
5) 2 x 512MB Kingmax @ 446DDR
6) E-MU 1212m
7) Western Digital 120Gig Hard Drive
god damn! 939 all the way!!!! I think this is the best I've seen so far, this athlon 64 chip is seriously blowing my mind... in every audio app I've seen, this chip is smoking everything out there... even chips 2/3 times it's price.

amazing! 8O
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Re: CPU TEST

Post by MarkH » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:22 am

I just purchased a Dell Dimension 8400 P4/3.4 two weeks ago. This is a stock machine with no upgrades yet.

1) 24% (peak at 27%)
2) Intel 925X
3) Windows XP Home (SP2)
4) Intel P4/3.4 with HT
5) 512MB Ram DDR2
6) SoundMAX using ASIO4ALL v2.2
7) 7200rpm SATA 160GB
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Post by for[e]sight » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:14 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 65%
2) DIY pc
3) Windows XP Professional SP2
4) Intel Celeron 1.7GHz
5) 512MB DDR333
6) SB Live (original)
7) 120GB Maxtor 5400rpm

this is sucks. hahah i'm waitin for my new Powerbook G4 1.67Ghz, i'll post the results next week.

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Post by JohnY » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:57 am

1) 36% peak
2) TUSL2-C/Socket 370
3) Win 2k SP3
4) Tualatin PIII 1.4 (s) oclocked to 1660
5) 512
6) Echo Darla 20
7) 7200 Rpm 80 Gig

ryansupak
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Post by ryansupak » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:09 am

1) cpu Peak = 61% (unplugged) -- 60% (plugged in)
2) iBook G4 12"
3) Mac OSX 10.3.7
4) G4 1.2 gHz
5) 256 MB RAM (Built-In)
6) coreAudio (will post later with mAudio FW410)
7) 5400 RPM stock HD (28 GB)

FWIW, there was no glitching at 512 samples or less...
rs

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Post by Machinesworking » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:26 am

LOFA wrote:Results:
With effects:29-34%
Without :20-24%

I must add that 4/5 of my hard-drive (200/250gb) is packed. I have a feeling this must affect performance bbut I have no way of really knowing.
yes that would affect performance a bit I would bet. The standard rule with hard drives is 75% or less is best. OSX defrags on the fly as you use files and move data, but it needs room to do this.

Though the 75% rule is not OS dependent at all. Some people go as low as 70% on it to be safe. get another hard drive. Do you only have on in your dual?

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