Hi all guys and gals

in the last days I saw a whole lot of topics about Live's laziness so I thought it would've been nice to have a clean solution.

Ableton official forum is flooded with topic by people going nuts with this crappy feature that came with Live9
(the idea is not crappy at all, the implementation and optimization surely is)


I hope this can bring some relief to your unbearable pain and frustration (and mine too)


Just to give you an idea of what's goin on under the hood (I wasn't even browsing anything at all in Live when I took this screenshot):

(don't mind the 123% on Live.app, it's just cause it uses 100% of a cpu and 23% of another (or 50% of one and 73% of another, or...well, you got it)






And even after 3minutes I have quitted live the hog is still eating hard on the cpu:





So I wrote a little automator app for making it easy to kill the indexing.

It's very simple, double click on it and it will launch live,
wait for it to instantiate the Indexing process and just kill it.
When its done it quit so nothing else is run when you work in Live.

And you're ready to go, Live9 return as fast as Live8 used to be.

If you want indexing back (you really want it? ), just quit Live
and relaunch it with the original Live.app or shortcut like you're used to.

The Live application can be placed anywhere on your hard disk,
BUT it has to be named "Ableton Live 9 Suite"
(btw it'll be named like that if you didn't changed the name after installing it).





Don't worry it doesn't do anything obscure, it can't hurt your system,
anyway for who's interested here you can see the scripts:
Scripts


So here we go, grab it here:

http://ul.to/gai7htan

or here:

http://www59.zippyshare.com/v/48479331/file.html

EDIT @ 06 May: Modified script, now it should work in 10.5 and 10.6 too


Hope it can be useful

If you want feel free to share the links elsewhere, just give credits!

copylefter 4 AudioSex

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Apologies in advance, I really just cannot resist.....

PC PLEASE!?!
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(All joking aside, it would be sweet for a PC genius to rig up the same kinda gizmo.) *yes*

 

Pilzy,
finally someone begging for PC on a Mac topic
At least now MacBoys can say they're not the only bitching "*Insert OS name here* pleeeease!"
Just kidding

But sadly I can't do a similar thing for windows I have absolutely no knowledges of "traditional" coding. (and no windows machine on hand too)

Making such an app is not such a difficult task for a somewhat "power user" on Mac,
automator and AppleScripts are pretty simple to learn, and I don't know if there's such an option on win side.

Someone may kick in for the PC side, we have some good guys here with great skills
In the meanwhile, you can always manually kill indexing process upon Live launch (but I don't know if on windows it relaunch when quitted).

 

Dang, couldn't get it to launch on 10.6.8

 

Provide it for PC and Ill be impressed.

 

That is fucking great man, excellent initiative.

I could write a script to do it for PC but I don't use Ableton and I have not a moment to spare unfortunately. Sorry.

 

Try to download it again from the links in my OP, I modified the script, now it should work in 10.5.x and 10.6.x as well.
I previously used "exists application process" command that after a quick research seems to have been introduced in 10.7,
now it's using a different command that should work in every os version.

Please report here if you manage to get it running on 10.6

A note for who's running 10.9 Mavericks:
on first launch it may ask you permission to execute, is something related to Accessibility Prefs
(wtf thanks god I'm not partially sighted! Why I should give access to Accessibility is beyond my comprehension)
Anyway it doesn't hurt, so give it permission, a prompt should point you to the Accessibility preference pane
and ask you to add an exception. Do that once and it won't bother you again.

On any pre-Mavericks OS it will just work without these hassles.

The Mavericks release notes for developers say this:

I don't have 10.9 installed nor I want to have it, I'm already totally pissed off since I was forced to use 10.8
cause my beloved SnowLeo doesn't work on my 2012 MBP

Anyway it seems Apple policy of continuous OS updates to force users buy new machines is not pissing off just me.
(not to talk about shiny new features nobody gives a fuck about...except people used to iOS maybe...
but you moron I bought a PRO computer to do PRO works, not because I like to have an overpriced ipad with a keyboard stuck on it)

A quote from the developer of SuperDuper!

Thanks Cat

 

@copylefter
Great post ;)

FOR PC USERS NO NEED TO CREATE A SCRIPT:
Open Ableton
Ctrl+Alt+Suppr and kill this motherfu.... Ableton Index.exe process.
Now everything is as smooth as in V8


If you need it again: Restart Ableton Live

 

I'm gonna give this a test! Can't wait to see how performance improves, this has been so strenuous ! Thank you so much!

 

woks in 10.8.5 also thx mate its really helpful

 

Great idea, and just the thing I need. But when launching the Kill Index app in OSX 10.7.5, Activity Monitor shows Ableton Index is still running at anything up to 99%.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

M.

 

The Index process get killed some second after launch, try to check after 15-20 seconds.

 

works perfect here on 10.9.5 & 10.10.2 thanx mate !

 

WORKS PERFECT ON YOSEMITE... I got to say.. This thing has revolutionized my entire life and work flow. I can NOT thank you thank you thank you enough. You're the man Copylefter

 

I see that this is an old thread that was revived but...

I like the Indexing app

Takes up little to no CPU on my machine and it makes it so that I can locate any sample pretty much instantly. It's great for when you move some files around in your library and Live needs to find them for you.

To each his own. Very cool of copylefter to share his creation with everyone.

 

Sorry to bring back an old topic and if this was already addressed. I have both 32 bit and 64 bit and when running this script it seems like it only works for the 32 bit version only (could be that I changed the 64bit version name to "Ableton live 9 suite 64" or something like that). Im assuming I can just change the script with the 64 bit name right?

 

maybe im wrong but the index may be using cpu that is available and not competing with any programs, it may work like ram priorities, may even be indicating a percentage of the currently USED cpu and not off the cpu capacity.

how could you otherwise be using 84,2% + 122,5% (?!) as showing in your screenshot?

things may not be just like what they look like

but if you really notice a performance difference, then sure..

 

To prevent starting Index you don't need run any scripts. Select with right mouse click 'Paketinhalt zeigen' or in english Show Content info ? I'm not shure. Change directory to App-Resources/Extensions/index and rename Ableton Index to Old_Ableton Index. Ableton ist starting without Indexing Process. Sorry for my bad english.

 

Sweet but what if you want Ableton to index sometime and sometimes you don't? Your method would be extreme tedious. Clicking a icon would be better in my opinion.