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Folks,

I am giving up. I am tired of fiddling around with Live 5, trying to make the software work instead of spending the little time I have making music.

I admit i had high expectations with regards to Live 5 and since the program ideally supports the way I compose, I had the hope to make Live 5 my main sequencer. This is not going to happen. In fact, I decided to stop using Live altogether. Why? Here is a list of what happened this morning with 5.0.3 - a typical morning with the program:

9.00 am: Starting my session, Live 5 will not recognize my Mackie Control any more. It did so unitl I ended my last session yesterday night at 2 am. Hm.

10.00am: After deleting preferences, re-starting my machine and the peripherals, Live recognizes my Mackie Control again, but will only play crackles out of my MotU Traveler

10.30: After another restart of the whole setup, we are up and running and I finally start playing. Deciding to use 2 instances of GuitarRig I find that Live's CPU usage meter goes to 100% and produces crackles instead of sound. On a 2.5GHz Quad with 2.5GB of RAM? You are kidding me.

11:00am: Deleting Live 5 from my machine and returning to Digital Performer to begin the project from scratch.

Apparently, something went seriously wrong with the re-design of the software from V4.x to V5 and still with 5.0.3, Live performs like an early beta rather than a stable release candidate.

My vedict after many frustrating hours: Not useable for production.

Regards,

Thomas

bon voyage,

with only two posts - I doubt you'll be missed. Try getting a refund and let me know how you get on

http://europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/red ... enters.pdf

try emailing your national ECC office and see where you stand

Hope DP works for you, maybe next time stick around a bit and ask some questions.

live really hates you

i think in the beginning it's like every software to set up. there is lots of messing around with parameters and getting your periphereals to work, i bet this was also the case in dp. but when you coped with everything, live is just the best in place. try again when you got some more free time.

martin