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i was playing out the othert night and my imac spikes like 3-4 times to 150% and glitches something nasty. the imac is brand new and i think i have all my internet and updates off. any help would be greatly appreciated. i played the two nights before and it didnt do it, please help!

imac
firewire audiophile
uc33-e
external hard drive

u using Live 5.03 etc? I just went through nightmare with my new macpro and turned out I had to dowload the 5.2 beta version. All sweet after that. Universal Binary vs. Rosetta... if that means anything to u...
Good luck,

i am using version 4 still, i have read about more cpu problems with 5 so i didnt upgrade. i will wait for version 6 probably. any other idea other than the version that could be causing me this problem.

thanks

yeah. Live 4 will not work on your system. Simple as that...
You can try out the Live 5 beta though. So you can see for yourself if it would be worth it to upgrade.

Live 4 only runs under rosetta on a intel mac. So you will never be able to use that full power.

Btw. Live 5 will run faster on your new mac then Live 4 on any mac.

Cpu issues are relative. some people have them. some dont

Thanks for your help. After reading all the info 5.2 that sems like it will solve the problem. What is causing it to bog down like that? Anyway I will be upgrading ASAP to 5.

which imac?

20" imac 2GHz
intel dual core processor
512MB ram
250GB hard drive

i just bought it two weeks ago, i have a three night a week gig and i need to figure this out.


thanks

So where can you download the 5.2 beta version from? I couldn't find it anywhere on the Ableton web site.

beta announcements are made in the general forum

or u can go straight there:
http://www.ableton.com/beta