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Soyogen
post Thu 27 Jul 2006, 20:57
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Hi guys. I just recently purchased a new macbook pro 2.0 ghz and I was shocked it's lack of performance with Live.

With just attempting to play a an instrument in "Operator" with the qwerty keyboard, the cpu jumps to +80%

I have no idea why this is. It's unusable. I have a 1.6 ghz windows laptop and Live works fine. The processor maxes out when I am running 7 or 8 midi tracks and streaming several waves from my hard drive, but that's reasonable. The Mac cracking up while playing one midi track is not.

I purchased the Mac hoping that it would show an improvement over the windows machine. Unfortunately, it's unbearably worse.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
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lancet
post Fri 28 Jul 2006, 04:22
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We'll , I'm no expert, but make sure it's the "Universal " build of Live. (5.2??) I hear v6 is better now.

also make certain that processor performance is set to "highest" in the Energy saver system preference.


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jay
post Fri 28 Jul 2006, 08:23
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QUOTE (Soyogen @ Thu 27 Jul 2006, 21:57) *
Hi guys. I just recently purchased a new macbook pro 2.0 ghz and I was shocked it's lack of performance with Live.

With just attempting to play a an instrument in "Operator" with the qwerty keyboard, the cpu jumps to +80%

I have no idea why this is. It's unusable. I have a 1.6 ghz windows laptop and Live works fine. The processor maxes out when I am running 7 or 8 midi tracks and streaming several waves from my hard drive, but that's reasonable. The Mac cracking up while playing one midi track is not.

I purchased the Mac hoping that it would show an improvement over the windows machine. Unfortunately, it's unbearably worse.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks



Since the new laptop G4 mac´s come with Pentium processors - (no motorola) there´s really no big difference between the machines anymore, just make shure you have enough RAM.
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rickenbacker
post Sat 29 Jul 2006, 19:50
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The main development focus for Live 6 is mostly about dual processor support, so that should be a leap ahead for performance if you get that when it's released in a couple of month's time.

If you don't have the Universal update, as the previous poster wrote, get that. Operator patches can also be very demanding, with FX and the like in the chain. I don't know why you'd be getting one track at 80%, though - my PowerBook (note: PowerBook) can run a bunch of Operators before cracking up. What latency do you have set? Raise it until nothing stutters - 512, 1024, etc.
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mortalengines
post Sun 30 Jul 2006, 00:11
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Yes, make sure that you have the MOST up to date version of live. I know that when I first installed 5.0 on my G4 I was NOT impressed but 5.2 seems to run pretty ok.
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post Sun 20 Aug 2006, 12:04
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youl need 5.2 as thats coded for itel macs , also live 6 brings multicpu & multi core support,
out in sept this year ,

i find live 4 run faster than live 5.2 at this time even on my 2.5 quad g5 ...
try it the gui runns smother , & about 50% more plugins work better .
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QUOTE (Soyogen @ Thu 27 Jul 2006, 20:57) *
Hi guys. I just recently purchased a new macbook pro 2.0 ghz and I was shocked it's lack of performance with Live.

With just attempting to play a an instrument in "Operator" with the qwerty keyboard, the cpu jumps to +80%

I have no idea why this is. It's unusable. I have a 1.6 ghz windows laptop and Live works fine. The processor maxes out when I am running 7 or 8 midi tracks and streaming several waves from my hard drive, but that's reasonable. The Mac cracking up while playing one midi track is not.

I purchased the Mac hoping that it would show an improvement over the windows machine. Unfortunately, it's unbearably worse.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
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mechcon
post Fri 6 Oct 2006, 05:08
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also 6 is out as y'all know tongue.gif and if it does still chew up cpu (i.e. when adding vst's) just freeze the track if you can, IF you can
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