Ableton Live 8 Running horribly slow on Mac Pro 8 Core

[aftertouch]

damm i just bought ableton 8, what great news.

[vinylmunkie]

Hi

I have been on Live 8 for about 2 weeks now and noticed a definite degradation in performance. I have tried several songs in both version 7.0.16 and 8.0.4 and I find that sometimes the processor use jumps 40% in 8.0.4 which causes the audio to stutter slightly erratically and the green bars to stutter. The main cause I am finding is that if I use a full screen on my external monitor.

I am using a White MacBook 2.2GHz with 4GB RAM and attaching to a 1920x1200 monitor over DVI as a single screen.

Testing between the two versions shows 7.0.16 has no problems with a full screen although the processor use does rise a few %.

Hope you can fix it soon as it's not great!

Thanks
STU

[pcm3]

I completely agree with everyone's complaints about Live 8 hogging the CPU. I am running a huge session with many plugins including battery 3, reaktor 5, Oxford Limiter, Reason... In Live 7 (with not plugin windows open) it idles at 3%. with Live 8 it idles at around 8-9%. This is completely unacceptable for performance sake.

However, one thing that I noticed when opening my Battery 3 window in Ableton 8, the internal CPU meter is jumping all over the place from 2% to 6%. In Ableton 7 it sits comfortably at 1-2%. Is there a compatibility issue with some plugins? I would love to know because I want to stay up to date and I love some of the new features but I need to minimize CPU load for performance.

PCM3

[bazgria]

I registered just to add my frustration. I'm UNABLETON to work with version 8. It crashes soooo many times for soooo many different reasons! I just formatted and reinstalled everything just to verify it wasn't my fault but on my mac pro 8 core 2,8 and 8 gig rams it runs like cr4p. I was teaching a guy unableton (that's how i call it now with producer friends) in my home studio and i opened a new proj, dragged an audio clip into it and while i was renaming it and changing color it crasheeeed!!! Not to say if you DARE to change audio buffer from 512 to 128 for live recording!!! Have always to open a NEW SET record into it and copy the stuff back in the other one!!! I learned the painful way to SAVE EVERY MINUTE with unableton! I've also get a serious unableton error with log saved losing 30 mins of work and i was so pissed of i just had to stop working and go for a walk. Hey guys we pay for this software! Come ooon! I have a monster mac that should be UBER performing BUT even the vu-meters are graphically lagging!

[Dennis DeSantis]

Hi folks,

We strongly recommend trying out the latest beta version of Live 8.1.1

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=132141

These recent betas have fixed a number of performance-related issues.

Also, for those of you having issues with specific third-party plug-ins, please see if your plug-in appears here:

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25171

This list is out-of-date, but it's the closest thing we have right now to a known plug-ins issues list.

If you continue to have problems, please let us know.

Best,

[joepitt206]

cheers! problem seems solved in the beta

[kjyv]

Hi,

nothing fixed here. ableton 8 runs horribly slow while the version 7 demo runs happily fluent. With only very few tracks it already starts stuttering. I'm running a dual core macbook though, no mac pro.
Sadly I can't go back to using any version 7 since I only have version 8 licensed. Please try to find a fix for this soon since live is not usable at the moment for me.

Thanks

[DangerousDave]

I am still having horrible issues with Live 8.1 on a dual core PC laptop. Computer is almost brand new with almost nothing on it, (I use it for school) and Live is taking 4-5 seconds responding to and move I make with the mouse.

***One strange thing I noticed is that the sound output when I play something with my midi keyboard is absolutely fine, it is not delayed or anything, but if I try and play something using my computer's keyboard it is delayed/broken up.

I am trying to give the Abes team the benefit of the doubt but this is rediculous and is making Live completely unusable.

[m.nash]

Beta fixed my issue. Running like a dream.

[dim7chord]

Okay, so I usually don't ever post to forums like this, but I think that I found a fairly strange work around for Ableton Live 8 running so slow. I don't even remember how I figured it out, but I've been using it for the past couple of days and it's been working great. Here's the "fix":

So I was having the same problem that other were having with Ableton being extremely slow and taking an extreme amount of time to respond to clicks and other movement. I noticed that if I waited around a minute or two it would eventually fix whatever was broken, and then would run fine. But I discovered that if you will:

1. Load Ableton
2. Let Ableton sit for just a few seconds, (literally just a beat or two)
3. Then go to the bottom right corner (where you can resize the window) and just resize the window, it starts running normal again.

I have NO idea why it would work, but it does for me. I have to do it every time that I start Ableton. Small sacrifice for such a great program I guess. Try it out, it worked for me, I'm sure they will get around to fixing whatever the issue is.

Hope it helps!

[cids]

@ dim7chord: what type of system are you running Live on?

[tragedybysyntax]

I'm running a Dual 1.25ghz G4... been playing with the Live 8 Demo. REALLY wanted to order the suite this week but... jesus. I dropped ONE instance of Operator on a midi track and it hit 99%. After I cleaned the poop from my pants... I deleted that track. Dropped in 2 collisions and 2 tensions... CPU automatically hit 134%. So... I realized real quick I needed an intel to fix the problem. But now you guys have intels and still have CPU problems... This is crap.

[tragedybysyntax]

anything on this? What macbook pro would I need to run it smoothly? Surely DJ's aren't all running brand new macbook pro's with this are they? Seems silly... :/

[markos]

Hey guys im having the same issue!

i was working on a track and everything was working fine then one day it just started going all glitchy. the level metre's respond very slow, and the play indicator's are also very slow. it almost feels like ableton is about crash and take my computer with it!

what the heck is going on????

Im on a PC 2.13 ghz running windows XP and 2 gig's of ram. Soundcard is a Saffire LE

PLEASE HELP!

[diogo_semedo]

just updated to live 8 a week ago and im using a Macpro 2.8 Ghz and 8GB RAM. My soundcard is the Edirol Fa-101 configured to 96 Khz as a sample rate. The only VST I am using is Sylenth (which should not suck up so much CPU load)
It works fine but when I add say 6 MIDI tracks with Sylenth1 on them....CPU usage becomes up to 50 % ??!!
When I bought my Macpro i thought it would be perfect with music production! So what is the deal here??

Thanks

That's exactly what's happening to me