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Hi

I'm looking to improve the performance of Live 8 on my MBP i7 Quad 8gbRAM 10.7.5.

I think this is a fairly common problem, but I'm looking for useful pointers as what to which way to go. Ableton is clipping on 70-80% CPU, while Activity Monitor is showing pretty much under 50% on CPU and RAM. Also, interestingly, I am using Vienna Ensemble 64bit in the background, which is ticking along happily running samples at 20% CPU.

So, is this a 32bit issue? Is LIVE 8 struggling, using its available 2 gig of RAM (not sure if this is correct).
Would LIVE 9 64bit solve this? From posts I've read, this might not be the case. I could buy a faster computer, but I'm not even pushing this one yet. Wouldn't I just have the same problems if I continue using Live?

Would an SSD drive improve the performance. My logic tells me that it would only affect loading times, not overall audio performance levels.

And no I don't want to reduce latency. I shouldn't have to really, its at 172.

It might be more cost effective to buy Logic, which will be able to use all available cores and RAM?? I Love the Live workflow so dont want to do this.

Any advice appreciated.

would 64bits resolve this?

not sure but it cant hurt you to install both 32 and 64 and try it out.


What is your audio interface?

I'm not using mac but windows7.
you can surely boost the performances of your system with some tweakings.

Windows 7 for instance is a hell to work with audio by default.
after some adjustements it is rock solid.

Don't you have some performance options like in windows for energy saving?

If I work in live with economy mode the cpu will reach 90% -if not 100%- in no time with a full project.

Standart mode would raise cpu till 70%-80%

and performance mode would be the perfect one.

this is a shitty article but I think it is related to what I'm saying about energy option on mac

http://macs.about.com/od/switchersnewus ... erpane.htm

best

Saffire Pro 24 Interface.

I'm on Mac. All energy saving stuff is off as I never use the battery anyway. Plus the Mac itself is only going at 50% tops.

Going 64bit would mean upgrading to Live 9. Not worth it for me unless the performance is improved radically. Need to find out if that is likely....hopefully someone will let me know here.

Danb1 wrote:Saffire Pro 24 Interface.

I'm on Mac. All energy saving stuff is off as I never use the battery anyway. Plus the Mac itself is only going at 50% tops.

Going 64bit would mean upgrading to Live 9. Not worth it for me unless the performance is improved radically. Need to find out if that is likely....hopefully someone will let me know here.

There is a 64-bit version L8 try that.

sure live 8 is both 32 and 64 bits.
it has been a long time this way, sorry then I thought it was obvious and nothing in my post was about Upgrading to live 9.

Anyway,
go to your account download archive and choose 64bits


Voilà.

Ok cool. I thought 64bit was only LIve 9. Good to know. Not sure this is my issue anyway as the problem projects are not addressing up to 4gb RAM, so there would be no performance benefit other than addressing more RAM by going 64bit. I use Vienna ensemble to bridge some plugins as a 64bit background server, so use additional RAM that way. Not to mention, I'd have to reinstall ALL my other plugins as 64bit.
I suspect something else and I'm onto support.
Thanks.