boring interface years and years... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14.... 54 55 56 same... grey black 76..77.. black grey green ...99.. same

 

As disappointing as Live 11 is, Ableton still has the best workflow with Push 2.

 

For 4 or 5 years old laptop, Live 11 is a too-much-resources consumer, cracks, pops, ...fucks... Plus strange incompatibility with projects including native plugins from v10. I have come back to v10 successfully.

 

I moved to bitwig
i don't know why but ableton acting weird in my 10-year-old pc. if I make 1 track and insert a plugin in it and duplicate it like 80 times, ableton becomes sluggish no matter if my CPU is full or not. even moving loaded plugin around is sluggish. I don't find the answer to it. I have this problem in 11 and 10, not tested 9.
bitwig does not have this problem and it have interesting options too
like: it never going to crash. plugins load individually
real (i mean it) deactivate bottom.
and I think the whole daw is like a synth . everything is modulate able.
suggest giving bitwig a try

 

Ableton 11 works fine on my Ryzen rig and for all the complainers about the cpu monitor just right click it and set it back to the old mode. Problem solved. Rack variations are great, I wish they would upgrade the browser and add a native multiband splitter that kept phase accuracy. Fl Studio added one recently.

 

Cpu meter in live 11 is absurd. I have my settings on 64 latency and even with the cpu asking for help with a couple of tracks at the beginning... I still can add lots and lots of tracks with effects and whatnot and no glitches and not much of a change on cpu meter.

I just forgot that I have it and keep on working on my songs.

By the way, cpu meter ON THE TRACKS are waaaaaay better and actually if you hear a clip or something weird... you know what plugin is doing it.

 

You might know this trick but I just use the Multiband Dynamics device and solo the frequency bands inside an effects rack.

 

it seems logical to me that plugin windows increase cpu load because not many plugins use gpu acceleration...

 

staying with 10..... and I'm starting timidly with MS Paint!

 

I have analyzed many different versions of ableton regarding cpu load. First of all Ableton loads the cpu more when plugins gui are closed, while a little less with open gui. It is so, even if you would expect the opposite. However, if the load is close to 97%, then with the gui open it starts to slow down and drop, while with the gui closed it could still hold a normal playback.
Specifically I analyzed the following versions: 10.1.1 - 10.1.3 - 10.1.9 - 10.1.17 - 10.1.25 - 10.1.30 - 11.0.1
quickly and without going into details, as a result of my tests, I can say that from vers. 10.1.25 onwards, the load on the cpu has increased considerably, on average by 2 percentage points, compared to previous versions. Vers. 11.0.1 has gone back slightly, so with only 1% more than the previous ones until vers. 10.1.17.
The cpu overload problem also occurs to me when I duplicate a track but also when I delete a track, but it is only a graphical problem. Also Duplicating a heavy audio track gives the same imperceptible dropout as in vers 10.
To date, however, I have not yet understood the real usefulness of the window with the two different meters cpu of the new version 11. The Average mode is the same as vers 10, the "current" mode is simply the same meter but with a shorter refresh time. Nothing more. Ableton, honestly speaking, is not really a DAW. To become a DAW it would have to be completely rewritten from scratch, considering as good things only the SRC, the warp engine (maybe), the window for MAX, and its virtual instruments and processors...

 

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I don't understand why so many are having cpu issues tbh. Yeah the spike get a bit high but it's running like a champ on 10+year old Mac pro

 

 

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It's only on the mix window. You have the enable it on the far bottom right. It's one of the buttons there

 

Thanx signalflow, now I see it

 

I'd really like to try Ableton 11 but I'm not going to be upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 any time soon.