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I downloaded and installed Live 8 Suite. The download is really large, I've got a 5GB monthly plan, so won't be watching too many videos this month ... anyway...

the "do you want to create a new library" tripped me up. Yes I wanted to, but I guess it created it in the same spot my old library was. Not sure what's going to happen if I open up Live 7 on this computer again.

Then. opened a set, done previously in Live 7. It sounds much better-- clearer, better separation between elements, specifically-- in Live 8.

There was an audio effects rack that I remembered I liked in the beta, so I wanted to apply that to the drums. But it wasn't available, and then it was "oh, yeh, it is only showing the presets from the project". So I did the Library repair thing, which detected a bunch of Live packs not yet installed, and so it installed those, which takes a really long time. Now it is scanning the library, which also looks like it is going to take a long time. I had planned on setting aside a few hours for Live 8 goodness, but looks like that will all be used up installing it

Not complaining, mind you, it seems to be progressing well. Just wondering, how long did it take you to run the upgrade install from Live 7 suite to Live 8 suite?

5 GB monthly plan? What kind of racket they running down there?! How much does that run ya a month?

hm, it didn't take so long here. I had live 7 suite download, and upgraded to 8. No problem, twenty minutes or so. Not different much than installing a beta. I didn't install any sesion drums, drum machines, EICs or such, though.

I converted my old library to the 8 format. Now I can't use presets when using live 7. ouch.

Yeah, the session drums took a loooong time to load onto my system.
Haven't bothered to put EIC on as yet.

All good things take time.

It's HUGE. What is it, 1.43 Gig? It's supposed to take a long time if you are upgrading to suite from Live 6. Live 7 would take a lot less and of course the more instruments you already have, the less time it will take. What I noticed is that it takes a long time to execute the initial set up file. I would imagine it's just that it's monstrous is all.

There is definitely something different about the save, save as, manage files in project/set process when you are getting all your poop in a group. It's almost like a Fat32 process would be, but of course that's HD configuration dependent and I am certain everything on my end is ntfs.

What I have been very impressed about so far is how efficiently Live 8 is spreading itself out across multiple cores. I was running Stylus RMX in full 8 channel multi timbrel, Reaktor 5, Massive, Absynth 4, Tension, Electric & Drum Racks as HARD as I could last night while recording everything on dedicated tracks in the session view. I was using TONS of midi effects and audio effects in every track. The highest I could get my CPU was 36% in the most insane applications I could come up with. Normally it was residing under 20% most of the time.

It took 12 minutes to download the package and 8 minutes to install. That aint much??

liveISlife wrote:5 GB monthly plan? What kind of racket they running down there?! How much does that run ya a month?

I've got a 3G wireless modem (EVDO Rev-A), it is nationwide service, which is kind of nice-- the service is $60 a month, but if you go over that 5GB, you are heavily screwed, to the tune of twenty five cents a megabyte.