[SOLVED] Ableton Live CPU over usage error

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[SOLVED] Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:22

I think this is the right spot...
Lately I've been having an error where Ableton Live has started using a lot of CPU usage when before it didn't and due to this it has began to clip the audio quite badly to the point where I can't work on any music...
Does anyone have this problem/a fix for it
BTW I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.2 8GB Ram
and please don't start a "You're on Mac that's why" Thread
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby vladnuke » 03 Feb 2013 04:42

Does ableton have a multithreading option?
If so, turn that on.

Also check task manager (or whatever the equivelent of task manager is for Mac) and see how much cpu it's really using. It might just be dumping itself all on one core. What cpu do you have?

I also see you're using Itchy synths. Those are cpu hungry from what I've heard.
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:44

it only started doing this last week which is weird
when I'm using ableton nothing else is open or running (other than system stuff) so the cpu has hardly any usage other than ableton...
it's a dual core 3rd gen i7 2.9 GHz
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby vladnuke » 03 Feb 2013 04:48

Can you check what background procceses are running? Is the cpu only high when you run ableton? Can you play tf2 on it with no problems?
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:53

I can play tf2 fine on full settings and stuff
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:54

normally it sits on less than 10% used unless I'm actually doing something that uses CPU usage
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:55

for example right now it's running at 25% because I have Photoshop open
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby vladnuke » 03 Feb 2013 04:56

Then the problem is with ableton.

Is multi-proccessing on?
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 04:59

yup
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby vladnuke » 03 Feb 2013 05:01

Then I guess you're gonna have to freeze tracks to save cpu.

Are you using more tracks than usual?
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Re: Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby Acsii » 03 Feb 2013 05:18

Wait I fixed it.
I turned the buffer down because I was recording vocals so wanted to minimise latency... I then forgot to turn it back to 2048... oops now it sits at 8% audio usage instead of 50%+
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Re: [SOLVED] Ableton Live CPU over usage error

Postby vladnuke » 03 Feb 2013 12:28

Lol
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