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So... I've been using a 2008 macbook pro for the last 4 years, I spend a lot of time freezing tracks. Most of songs have 60 tracks ish.

Just borrowed my dads early 2012 macbook pro, (quad core i7 4gb ram) loaded up ableton and a track i'm working on that normally hits 90% on the cpu meter on my old pute. I was expecting dramatic improvement, but I still got audio crunching out bad, and heaps of lag while clicking around the screen.. click stop, wait 2 seconds, beach ball, track stops.

I don't know much about computers, is this just because the software is new to this particular computer? I was still hitting 70% on the cpu meter

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I just played it again through, and this time the meter didn't go above 45%

Also, in the past I've noticed I can write a project all week, and the cpu meter will be doing ok. Then i work on a dif project, return to the first one and the cpu meter is off the scale.

Whats actually going on here?
cheers all

Do you use an external audio interface? They can help with the problem you are describing. At least in my world they do.

I also was kind of disappointed that my twice as fast mbp is only as twice as fast as my old macbook. still I am happy to be able to work with 10-15 midi tracks now. for liveperformance i render all of it to audio, though.

the bottleneck with computers is still RAM access.

you can add more cores to a machine but the bus to get to the RAM is still the same. a multi-core machine just lets to get more applications rolling, it doesn't mean they'll be faster. I felt a huge difference going from single to dual core. from dual core to 6 core I felt no difference except I could run Live (which felt the same but with lower latency) and more stuff in the background.

I don't know macs but I assume it's that kind of problem.

raise up your overall BPM


seriously, your statement pushes me once more to stick with custom pc or good pc laptop.

Windows 7 is just a charm for audio once it's tweaked.
and you don't need a bachelor cursus to make it running cool for audio/midi use

^ i dont think this has anything to do with mac/vs pc
this is happening because live is not 64 bit (read the post above yours).

nathannn wrote:^ i dont think this has anything to do with mac/vs pc
this is happening because live is not 64 bit (read the post above yours).

face meets palm.

If you use a lot of plugins, get Vienna Ensemble.