Managing CPU

Jesse_mtl · Post by **Jesse_mtl** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:38 am

Hey guys, just finished building a killer track i will post later this week. I would have finished it tonite but... my computer for some reason cant handle the cpu strain. i need your help!

i have a 3.2 ghz 1gb ram, 100Gb harddrive HP Pavillion zd8000 laptop... so hard drive speed is probly 4200rpm. Live is crashing when i playback 10 tracks of audio, with only 3 return tracks. NO effect devices on any tracks. Is this normal ?

I disabled some soundcard inputs and outputs to preserve CPU, I cleared my cache, I used RAM on some clips. Is there anyone who experienced this with a computer similar to mine, and if so, is there anything u can do to help me? I know theres information everywhere about this, but its everywhere, and i dont wanna hack my registry or do weird sh!t like that, it just doesnt seem normal for 10 tracks to be too much....

help would be much appreciated

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:39 am

If you've got Live 5, you can try freezing some of the tracks that you don't change very much. This can decrease the load quite a bit. Right-click on the track title/number, and choose Freeze...

Jesse_mtl · Post by **Jesse_mtl** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:53 am

brian always got the quick responses

i froze 2 tracks... but then i realized why? cuz freezing only helps if u have devices in those tracks that require calculations. i made sure i applied all effects destructively to the audio in the tracks... then i got rid of all track devices, see wut i mean?

track count turns out to be 13 tracks. all audio. im interested in knowing if anyone with a laptop has gotten more tracks playing at the same time?
could be my harddrive...

Renze · Post by **Renze** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:22 am

Hope this link is of good use for you:

www.musicxp.net

-Renze

El Duardo · Post by **El Duardo** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:31 pm

Renze wrote:Hope this link is of good use for you:

www.musicxp.net

-Renze

yes very nice, Iam going to try this.
http://www.musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:49 pm

doesn't help much renze...ableton still crashes if you tuned your OS.

in my case...i got a 15 channel track, but only one sample is fuckin up the cpu and when i mute it, everything goes normal.

d-rokc · Post by **d-rokc** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:28 pm

excuse my ignorance but... 15 audio tracks? what the hell do you have in there an orchestra?

or maybe you put every single hihat or click on a separate channel? just curious about the way you guys work.

in my case, when it comes to mixdown i would have 8 audio tracks the most. normally i would have 4 to 6 tracks (with bouced subgroups that is) - kick+sub bass group, rest of the drums group, a lead/bass, pads, + one or two soundFX groups. thats without counting the return channels for time based FX, but they never really go to a separate audio track, except if i bounced some reverb, but then its already in one of the mentioned groups

so, explain pls. and if that particular thread is not the place lets move it to a new topic, eh? cheers.

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:27 pm

d-rokc wrote:excuse my ignorance but... 15 audio tracks?

yeah, what's wrong with that... do i need to be cool and only have 8?

it's for various samples, since i like to keep every sample on it's own track... rhythm base is only on two midi tracks.