hambone1 wrote:Most dark clouds do have a silver lining, if you look hard enough.
well, then help me find the silver lining in these:
1 - very badly underperforming arrangeview at low resource usage. leads to lockups, "white screen of death" and occasional crashes.
2 - session view duplicating scenes parallels the arrange view problem. copy and paste parallels the arrange view slowdowns, although not quite to the same degree
3 - Live clips function efffectively useless, as its performance parallels the arrange view problem. as the lockups and waits increase on arrangeview, almost any Live clip task can lock up Live from anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 / 3 minutes - just like clips in the arrange view
4 - underperforming VSTs in comparison to other hosts, have never been able to simulataneously run more than 2 or 3 maximum (various combos of
atmosphere, trilogy, reaktor, guru, microtonic, z3ta, minimonsta, pro-53, absynth 3) and usually can only run 1 at most (probably a rompler like atmosphere)
5 - audio glitching issue, documented elsewhere. although im lucky, i only experience this under certain conditions, and because i have given up on using live as an arrangement app i dont get them anymore
6 - CTRL-SHFT-I duplicate scenes shorcut, does not work. started intermittently quitting in version 4 now never works in 5
7 - mousewheel, randomely quits. does not work much more often than it doesn
8 - VST windows, will randomly not appear. ie. clicking on the plug window button, nothing happens - VST is not accidentlally pushed off the screen. have to delete the entire VST and re-add (thereby losing any presets you were working on if you hadnt saved them
9 - render issues (that i am not having, luckily)
10- extermely slow loadtimes on sets with anything more than a few audio channels. "White Screen of Death" on this and other tasks
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all of these have been reported, most by multiple people, and i dont have the time to try and justify why we believe they are abletons problem to fix as the vendor and not ours as the user. its been done elsewhere.
some people are on substadard gear, or have buffers too low, or not enough memory, or have unrealistic espectations (10 VST synths running at once etc) or do not upgrade thier drivers, do not follow the board to pick up on solutions, etc
but many of us, no: we have tried everything. BEYOND everything. they are bugs or broken features. for sure.
its so bad that i feel exactly like the guy who started this thread, all the time. or ... i did, until i finally decided i cant use this program for other than certain tasks, and leave the arrangment and VSTs to another one (SX3)
which wastes a lot of my time i devoted to learning Live tequniqes - months and months, dont want to think tioo hard about it ... and slows down progress on projects i have almost complete and people are waiting for. in some cases release schedules
actually i know there are a couple of bugs or broken features that im not mentioning because ive been "working around" them for so long im not always consious of them unless im trying to do the task and they come up. i'll come back and add them later
hambone if you have any miracle solutions please give them. ableton doesnt need people always telling them how awesome they are, although its nice to have postive warm fuzzy feedback from the fans, if they dont hear why thier product isnt working for a hi enough percentage of users the company will go under ..
also, if you want to donate your perfectly performing rig for the benefit of the community, please donate it for autopsy so abelton can dissect why you seem to have none of these problems or any others, but a whole lot of other people do.
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I have already waited over a month, so a few more days will be nothing!
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