Ableton Forum

Hello

Ableton Newbie here. I perform in a electro duo have always used Reason. However - tried Ableton demo was very impressed, seemed just what we were looking for. We want to be able to record clips live and merge them with loops etc.

Been having serious performance issues with Ableton though. I upgraded my OS from tiger to leopard (just did the simple upgrade option) Ableton seems so slow and tripped up and crashed after trying to run 4 or 5 clips at the same time...no way can use this for live work at the mo. very dissapointed. Do you think i should have done a clean install for leopard or is it just that ableton 8 not stable yet? Anyone else done an upgrade to leopard and had similar issues??

Logic/Reason other apps seem to run fine on my upgraded OS.

any thoughts very welcome

ABLETON LIVE 8 SUITE/MACBOOK 2.16 INTEL CORE DUO/OSX 10.5.6/1GB RAM

EDIT: Do I need more RAM??

well, 1 gig is not that much. but first check your system monitor, maybe you have some background tasks running? i have the same mac like you, only with 2 gigs of ram, and live 8 suite works fine over here...

hth,
mark

thanks Mark,

no other tasks running - the program is working but seems to take a long time (sometimes 10 seconds) to preview clips while a song is running, MIDI clips are a lot worse than audio clips - and sometimes it just crashes when trying to preview a MIDI clip with a lot of info in it - like the "Latin Percussion" clips. How many MIDI clips do you reckon yours can handle at once?

cheers

George

hi george,

don´t know how many clips i can play simultaniously, but quite a few...depends on the midi instruments behind the clips;
i gues you should try creating a new user, login and try ableton. and disconnect all peripherals, and try again.
otherwie you mighgt consider getting another gig of RAM, if the above doesn´t help at all...

sorry for not being more helpful,

cheers,mark

IF you're running Leopard, you should definitely be using at least 2GB RAM. Easy and cheap upgrade, I bet it makes a ton of difference. Get it somewhere cheap like newegg.com.

What audio card are you using? Does it has its own drivers?

You could try clean install, too. But maybe if you ask from Ableton support first. You shouldn't have any trouble running 4-5 clips simultaneously. Least of all, a crash...

Thanks for your replies:

Posssu - I'm using a Digidesign MBOX , yes it has its own drivers which I will update, but I have the same problem using the Mac's built in Core audio anyway. Thanks Tarekith - I am going to get some more ram, I think my mac can only take 2GB max, which seems a pity, but like u say should make a difference - but I think there is something else wrong to be honest.Cheers Mark, yeah, I'll try your suggestions and report back. Think I'll try a clean install of Leopard without anything else loaded up and see how that is....

here we go again!!

hazah wrote:Thanks for your replies:

Posssu - I'm using a Digidesign MBOX , yes it has its own drivers which I will update, but I have the same problem using the Mac's built in Core audio anyway. Thanks Tarekith - I am going to get some more ram, I think my mac can only take 2GB max, which seems a pity, but like u say should make a difference - but I think there is something else wrong to be honest.Cheers Mark, yeah, I'll try your suggestions and report back. Think I'll try a clean install of Leopard without anything else loaded up and see how that is....

here we go again!!

i'm having probs in leopard using live too. i thought about going back to 10.4
any suggestions on that?