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Kind Of Stumped

mortalengines View Member Profile	Tue 19 Dec 2006, 08:06 Post #1
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 479 Joined: 08-May 05 From: Portland - US Member No.: 65,373	I have a powerbook G4 with 1.5ghz processor, 1.25 gig of Ram & OSX 10.3.9 with Ableton Live 5.2.2 & I was playing live the other day & not using my Firwire Interface as an output (instead opting for the "built in audio" option with a 1/8" adapter to RCA outs into a mixer) & on one song I started getting serious CPU overload at 62% & by that I mean audio cutout/stutter/slowdown....very ugly. This hadn't happened earlier in my home studio with the FW interface hooked up & it didn't happen when I got back home either (with the FW hooked up once again). Does using the built in audio really tax the CPU that much? Anyone else ever experience this? What was the solution?

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fishboisfo View Member Profile	Wed 20 Dec 2006, 17:02 Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 10-Jul 05 From: San Francisco - US Member No.: 67,641	Try a couple of things -- update to 10.4.8 -- Live 5.2, i believe, to have been optimized for panther. An even easier solution is keep track count low, and check your plug ins-- especially reverbs -- as they eat CPU. Lots of things can happen in a live performance -- hope this helps. Streamlining the locations of your samples, etc, or even the need to get a peripheral firewire interface for travel maybe one of many solutions. Contact Apple rather than Ableton, as this would seem more of a hardware than software issue. Good Luck !!

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mortalengines Kind Of Stumped Tue 19 Dec 2006, 08:06

aportman The internal audio card should not within itself ... Wed 20 Dec 2006, 07:09

fishboisfo Try a couple of things -- update to 10.4.8 -- Live... Wed 20 Dec 2006, 17:02

mortalengines Thanks guys I will try all of the above...BTW as f... Thu 21 Dec 2006, 08:11

lancet QUOTE (mortalengines @ Thu 21 Dec 2006, 03... Thu 21 Dec 2006, 11:38

mortalengines So that means that the transition from 10.3 to 10.... Fri 22 Dec 2006, 06:33

lancet QUOTE (mortalengines @ Fri 22 Dec 2006, 01... Wed 3 Jan 2007, 12:32

mortalengines Here's an interesting footnote to all of this.... Thu 4 Jan 2007, 06:04

lancet QUOTE (mortalengines @ Thu 4 Jan 2007, 01... Thu 4 Jan 2007, 13:15

oatylove im not a rocket scientist, I wouldnt up grade caus... Wed 3 Jan 2007, 06:21

aportman I am personally sick and tired of forced up-grades... Thu 4 Jan 2007, 07:05

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