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How good is Live for mixing ?

Hayez


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Posted : Jan 25, 2005 23:37
I love Live (v4) as a stage tool. It's one of the best when it comes to trigger samples and is most stable. However when it comes to mixing, it's not that great as I found out. It looks like it's stress the cpu and disk more then traditional programs. I have a seesion with about 30 audio tracks. I arranged it so only the audioible parts will be there, still I couldn't get more then 8 tracks playing simulatanecly. The same session on Nuendo 2 works without any problem and even more plug-ins.
I'm using a 1.8 GHz pentium 4, windows xp laptop. the drive is 4200 rpm, which is slow, but not for Nuendo. the live manual suggest to use ram samples, but I can't get everything to fit in the ram.
Anyone has similar experience, suggestions..., does it worth the trouble ?
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jhanna
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Posted : Jan 26, 2005 05:13
what kind of soundcard u using??? thats helps a lot
i use echo indigo pcmia with very long audio tracks and many vst intruments and its solid as a rock..
Hayez


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Posted : Jan 26, 2005 09:33
hey jhanna, you're right. good sound card helps a lot. I've got VXPocket v2. I use the Digigram asio driver. I tried to set it to max (2016 samples)and it still didn't help. I think that my drive is too slow, but then Nunedo manage to play it without putting stress on it. i can actully see that the drive works harder with Live then I start to get drops. maybe I need external one.
Spindrift
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Posted : Jan 26, 2005 09:40
The main difference seems to me like it would be that Live will reserve CPU power for anything in use weather it is playing or not.
So, all plugins will tax the CPU when they are loaded unless you deactivate them.

That is of course is a good thing for live use so it don't get overloaded when you happen to kick in one track too much, like the case would be with most other sequencers.
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Hayez


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Posted : Jan 26, 2005 19:54
This is true Spindrift, but I don't have a problem with a cpu overload. the cpu meter is low on 25%. I also tried to bypass all plug-ins and still I got drops.
koalakube
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Posted : Jan 29, 2005 14:38
About drivers?I found the ECHO ones quite reliable.I also tried the Asio zero latency one and works pretty good.

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