CPU goes through the roof! Please Help!!!
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:38 pm
I'm running Live 5 on my 1.25 GHZ Powerbook G4, with 1GB RAM. I am using Native-Instruments Guitar Rig 2 for guitar tones. The foot pedal for the GR2 is also a pre-amp and USB interface, so I am using that as well. I dropped a tabla loop that I had from Garageband in there and laid down a rhythm guitar track. That went fine, but as soon as I tried to lay down another guitar track over that, my CPU went nuts. I tried "freezing" both tracks, but still no luck. Now I can't even listen to the 2 tracks that are there without my CPU going past 100%. ANy ideas what I can do? Ideally I'd like to be able to lay down 4-6 guitar tracks, along with bass and drums and eventually keyboards and vocals, but I am pretty discouraged right now. Any ideas on what I can do to maximize my cpu usage? I know I can always buy more ram and/or a faster machine, but that's not gonna happen for a while, so........any other suggestions?
