LIVE 8 PERFORMANCE TEST - Results Here

[jimp]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter? 85%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Dell Precision 470
3) Operating System? Windows XP SP 3
4) Ableton Live version? 8.1.5
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? 2x Intel Xeon @ 2.8 GHz
6) Amount of Ram? 2GB
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? M-Audio Delta 66 via Delta 5.10.0.5074
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 7200 RPM
9) Number of playback tracks? 6

[carrieres]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 33%
2) Laptop/Desktop Make/Model: DIY PC
3) Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (32bit)
4) Ableton Live version: 8.0.4
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed: Intel, Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2.40Ghz
6) Amount of Ram: 3.4Gb @ 667MHz
7) Soundcard: EMU 0404 PCI
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed: 7200RPM
9) Number of playback tracks: 8

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: initially spikes to 25% and then settles at 14%-15%
2) Laptop/Desktop Make/Model: DIY PC
3) Operating System: Windows 7 64Bit
4) Ableton Live version: 8.1.5
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed: Intel, Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2.40Ghz
6) Amount of Ram: 3.4Gb @ 667MHz
7) Soundcard: M-Audio Delta 1010 (M-audio beta drivers)
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed: 7200RPM
9) Number of playback tracks: 8

I thought that the difference between the two sound cards was significant enough I should repost. No hardware changes except the soundcard. As you can see the M-Audio card makes a big difference. It's nice having the inputs too.

sorry to bother you, but the difference is because you read the CPU meter after the initial 8 track playing.
so when the song started Ableton was playing the 8 tracks and you read the result 25%
you need a nice core I7 to get 14-15% on the cpu meter

[man'X]

Hi everybody, my first post here

1. Ableton Live CPU Meter 43-45 %
2. Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Desktop iMac 24"
3. Operating System? Mac OS 10,5,6
4. Ableton Live version? 8.0.1
5. CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Intel C2D 3,06 Ghz
6. Amount of Ram? 4 GB
7. Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Edirol FA-66
8. Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? i don't know
9. Number of playback tracks? 8

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % ? 39-40 %
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Desktop iMac 24"
3) Operating System? Mac OS 10,6,4
4) Ableton Live version? 8,2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Core 2 Duo 3,06 GHz
6) Amount of Ram? 4 GB
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Edirol FA66
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? I don't know
9) Number of playback tracks? 8

I won 5% with Snow Leopard and Ableton Updates !

[Taylor Barclay]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak) 53%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Late-2009 MacBook
3) Operating System? Mac OS X 10.6.4
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
6) Amount of Ram? 4 GB
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Audio Kontrol 1
8) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 5400-rpm
9) Number of playback tracks? 8 tracks

[flippo]

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 24%
2 ) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom Desktop
3 ) Operating System? - Win XP SP2
4 ) Ableton Live version? - 8.0.4
5 ) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Q6600 Quad Core 2.4gHz
6 ) Amount of Ram? 4 Gig (3.6)
7 ) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Presonus Firebox v2.46
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 7200 rpm
9 ) Number of playback tracks? 8

Upgrading to Windows 7 64 bit saw an increase to 36%

[djkz]

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 24%
2 ) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom Desktop
3 ) Operating System? - Windows 7 64 bit
4 ) Ableton Live version? - 8.2
5 ) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Q6600 Quad Core 2.4gHz
6 ) Amount of Ram? 4 Gig
7 ) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Lexington Alpha
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 10000 rpm
9 ) Number of playback tracks? 8

Also i've tried to see how many tracks it can handle before clipping - i got to 38 at 96%

[HeadrickProductions]

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 24%
2 ) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom Desktop
3 ) Operating System? - Windows 7 64 bit
4 ) Ableton Live version? - 8.2
5 ) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Q6600 Quad Core 2.4gHz
6 ) Amount of Ram? 4 Gig
7 ) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Lexington Alpha
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 10000 rpm
9 ) Number of playback tracks? 8

Also i've tried to see how many tracks it can handle before clipping - i got to 38 at 96%

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 37%
2 ) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Sony VIAO 2009
3 ) Operating System? - Windows 7 64 bit (with many tweaks for increased preformance suggested by Avid, and other places)
4 ) Ableton Live version? - 8.2
5 ) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? intel core duo
6 ) Amount of Ram? 8
7 ) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? ASIOforall (most recent I believe 10_
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? think it's 7200
9 ) Number of playback tracks? 8

Then 16 tracks 72%. 24 tracks was a no good at 125%
Surprised that it did as well as it did

Is there a way we could setup a template to measure the bridge's performance.

[Parametex]

11%

[flippo]

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 24%
2 ) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom Desktop
3 ) Operating System? - Win XP SP2
4 ) Ableton Live version? - 8.0.4
5 ) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Q6600 Quad Core 2.4gHz
6 ) Amount of Ram? 4 Gig (3.6)
7 ) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Presonus Firebox v2.46
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 7200 rpm
9 ) Number of playback tracks? 8

Upgrading to Windows 7 64 bit saw an increase to 36%

not sure what I changed, but it's back down to 24 again Must have been some business running in the background I wasn't aware off.

[Piplodocus]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 33%
2) Laptop/Desktop? 17" i7 Macbook Pro (Mid 2010)
3) Operating System? OSX 10.6.4
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Dual Core i7 2.66 (with Hyperthreading and Turbo Boost to 3.33GHz)
6) Amount of Ram? 4GB 1066MHz
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? MOTU 828mk3 latest driver
Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive - 500GB 7200rpm with 4GB NAND Flash
9) Number of playback tracks? 8

Now for fun:
Enabling my usual number of inputs, buffer size 64 (2.43ms latency!), duplicated tracks 4 times so each section having 32, 24, 16, then 8 tracks:

32 track - Fail 114%
24 tracks - after change from 32 crap, but after a second or 2 settles down to 86% and works but sounds a little "crispy"!
16 tracks - about 1-2 sec after change CPU drops to 70% and all sounds nice!

Not much gained on this test by increasing buffer. 24 tracks sounds clearer though although 24 tracks takes a while to settle when playing out of 32 track section. Starting 24 from nothing is fine though.

I'd be interested to see this test using different longer samples. I imagine if the sample was longer then it would have to access the drive more. If it's a short conga/bongo hit it might basically all be held in RAM. How long is the sample, and how long does Live pre-fetch before it streams off the HDD? If it's a second of all the samples/loops there may not be any disk testing in this!

I'd like to know about the length of pre-fetch into RAM anyway, as I've been wondering about loading samples into RAM in session kits. If the first 2s is loaded into RAM then there's no point in spending hours setting hundreds of samples to "RAM" mode if they're all 2sec or less!

On other notes sometimes if Live's being slightly jumpy I turn Airport off and it seems better. Too early to say though as I've only had this a couple of weeks. This was all ran with it on (and safari/itunes open in the background)

[hypnotek]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 92%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Desktop
3) Operating System? Win XP SP3
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2 Live Lite
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Intel P4 3.6 MHz
6) Amount of Ram? 2 Gb's
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Realtek AC' 97 Ver. 5.10.0.5890
Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? WD 7200 rpm
9) Number of playback tracks? 2

[Tone Deft]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 18%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Desktop Dell Studio XPS7100
3) Operating System? Win 7 64 bit Home
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? AMD Phenom II X6 1035T 2.6Ghz
6) Amount of Ram? 6 Gb
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? USB Edirol UA101
8 Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? 7200 rpm
9) Number of playback tracks? 8

APC40, Launch Pad and sync'ed MPC1k running. 48kHz sample rate. first computer I've had where I can monitor the guitar 100% through Live at 48kHz and it's playable. didn't reboot, interweb is still connected. CPU is very quiet.

sweet.

[Rationalizer]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 28%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom desktop
3) Operating System? Win 7 x64 Home
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Intel Q8200 @ 2.3Ghz
6) Amount of Ram? 8 Gb
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Rme Fireface 400
8 ) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? SSD (ableton) + 7200 rpm (the project file)
9) Number of playback tracks? 8

Had couple of usb devices connected and also internet connection on at the same time.

[shuutobi]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 19-20%
2) Laptop/Desktop? N/A
3) Operating System? Windows 7 Professional 64bit
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Intel i5 760 Lynnfield Quadcore @ Stock (2.8GHz)
6) Amount of Ram? 4GB Corsair CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 XMP
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? T.C. Electronic - Desktop Konnect 6 (Driver v2.5)
8) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)? WD Caviar Black 1TB (7200rpm)
9) Number of playback tracks? 8

Edit: Did a few system tweaks and was able to get it to be 18-19%

[martinkellogs]

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