Live4 and Reason on a dual G5

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:20 am

I am wondering about how the cpu's work in this setup. According to what I have read several places live4 is not using the dual cpu setup nearly as well as it could be. So I am wondering how this works when using live4 with Reason. When you open reason via rewire do you still only get real use out of one cpu? or does reason run off the second cpu as one would hope? I figure that there is someone here using this setup as reason and G5's are both very comon these days. Any real world info would be great.

Peace.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:27 am

you should download menumeters from macupdate.com
it will tell you EXACTLY whats going on in terms of cpu usage.

as i understand it though, Reason uses both processors - independent of rewire settings.

but do the menumeters thing and let us know

atomic · Post by **atomic** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:23 pm

I dont have a G5 yet so I cant check it out. I was hoping that someone who usese this setup could give me the heads up.

peace

anton_67 · Post by **anton_67** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:57 pm

this was posted by robert henke from ableton a while a go

>
1. afaik - live 3 doesn't benefit fom mp-machines (rewired wih reason). any changes?

yes and no. all audio runs on one CPU but all user interface on the other one. this means with 80% CPU load you still have a fluid interface.

(...)

Robert
>

you'll find the whole thread here

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... c&start=15

i don't think there's a difference between vst/au and rewire. ?!

greetz

anthony