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[quote="Anonymous
Do you have eny pictures of your setup?
How stable is this Laptop?
How many tracks, efx can you run on it sucsessfully?
How stable in the EMI 2/6 sound (prelisten ports?) in a live gig situations?
How's the Evolution UC-16 controller in action?
sorry for too many questions
peace-jazze[/quote]

I just did a 75 minute live set last night running Ableton Live and a special plugin I am developing. I do not have any photos of my setup yet but someone did video tape parts of the performance so I'll try to grab a shot out of that.
The laptop is very stable. Last night I had about 50 scenes and 50 tracks but only ran about 8 tracks at one time at most. I had a bunch of effects loaded on diff tracks but my CPU never went over 40% (even with my own custom plugin that ate about 15% of that).
The EMI 2|6 was great. I had 2 of them set up on 2 laptops, one to record digitally what the other was playing.
The UC-16 was fine. Wish they came out with a rotary encoder version but it was fine for my needs.

bioroid

Make of computer: Macintosh TIbook 867
Operating system: os 9.2
CPU Speed: 867
Soundcard: Internal
RAM: 512 mb

Result for test 1: 4%
Result for test 2: 27%

Same CPU under OSX 10.2.2:

Result Test 1: 3%
Result Test 2: 28%

I'm happy!

This laptop is smoking! not literally, but I haven't had any performance issues as of yet.....

Mike, can you please do the test under OSX 10.2.3 ?? thanks

Interesting Thread

Mac G4 Dual, 1GHz, 1GB RAM OS 9.2.2
Soundblaster Live!
Live 2.0.1

Test 1 : 3%
Test 2 : 21%

Is it just me or don't "all the instruments" come on on bar 24?

Robbo

State your->
Make of computer: TiBook 1Gig / 1Gig Ram
Operating system: OS9.2.2 (No Ether, Ram disk)
CPU Speed: 1GHz
Soundcard: Internal

Result for test 1: 2%

Result for test 2: 17%

forgot -- using Live 2 demo using Agr from 1.5

I did some further testing. Putting Live or/and Arg files in the ram disk made little difference. I did remove many extensions though. I also have a Dell Latitude with a P4 at 2.0GHz with 512mb. I downed the demo for all. I did not try to move the Live 1.5 Arg file, I just went with the ver 2 demo files.
I started both the Dell and Tibook at the same time using the space bar. I was sure the Dell was going to beat it. But I was surprise that they pretty much kept in turn. The Dell did run about 3%-5% faster. Differences did surface in that they would spike a little at different times, the mac more. So the Dell would be at 11% and the Tibook would jump to 18% then settle.

However the big difference came with OSX, Live is terrible, besides have spikes going past 80% and getting dropouts it ran about 8%-13% slower than the Dell.

The interesting about the CPU meter, is that on OSX, Live said 2%, but the process Viewer had it at 18%-23%! Also the process Viewer show >+10% diff between Live and itsself. On the Dell, the windows task mgr show 5% when Live said 9%!! How can window say that its giving it less cycle but Live saying its giving it more, someone is lying and I think its Live.

Make of computer: non-brand PC
Operating system: Windows2000 Pro (SP3)
CPU Speed: 850
Soundcard: Yamahahaha SW1000xg

Result for test 1: 4%
Result for test 2: 17%

My system is optimized for audio, but during the test I had an interconnection open for a little added stress factor

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IBM T40 Notebook
1.5ghz pentium-m
512mb pc2100 ddr
integrated ati 7500 graphics
integrated intel sound
fsb 400
40gb 5200rpm drive

result test 1: 2%
result test 2: 6%

under test 2 i looked at task manager and it reported live cpu useage peaked at 1 or 2%, when live reported a peak of 6%.

Ibook G3 700mhz
bus 100/ 640Mb @133
OS: 10.3.3
Live 3.0.3
Core Audio
test 1(demo of 3.0): 8%
test 2 max peak: 38%

Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 8:32 pm Post subject: Live Performance Test 1 and 2:

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Test 1: Open the Live Demo Arrangement, what is your CPU level at with the transport stopped (i.e. the arrangement is not playing)

Test 2: Play the Live Demo Arrangement, what is your CPU level at when bar 17 comes in (i.e. after pressing play and when it hits the part of the song were all the tracks come in- bar 17)


State your->
Make of computer: HP Pavillion ze4500 (ze4650us)
Operating system: AMD Athlon XP-M
CPU Speed: 1.87
Soundcard: Echo Indigo IO
1gb ram

Not sure about the bus or ram speeds


Result for test 1: 2%
Result for test 2: 9%

Using the Live 2 Demo Arrangement:

ON LIVE 3.0.2

Test 1: 4%
Test 2: 7-8%


ON LIVE 2.0.3

Test 1: 1%
TEst 2: 7-8%

Toshiba Satelite 2430
P4 2.4
Xp Pro
1 Gig PC2100 DDR SDRAM (32 bit bus)
533 MHz PSB
L1 cahce: 12 KB
L2 cache: 512 KB
RME mulitface/cardbus
external fw drives for audio files (7,200 RPM, 8 MB chache, 8.9 ms seektime)

Ryan

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Make of computer: G4 powerbook
Operating system: 10.3.3
CPU Speed: 1.25 ghz
Soundcard: Built in

Result for test 1: 2%
Result for test 2: 17%

Same system using Quattro:

Test 1: 2-3 %
Test 2: 17-18%

Live 2.1.1 demo arrangement.