That the problem he litterally disabled all and maintained a load of 140%, so I guess it really is something faulty... And I think I know what... The fruity loops filter. In the older ableton this plugin caused it to crash :P

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just export each midi u got to a .wav file and arrange it that way. thats your best bet. you'll probably find out after doing that to about 2 or 3 different vsts that you found the route of your problem. its probably a vst thats overloading causing your cpu meter to sky rocket.

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If you don't have any automation, and cant find a better solution, then open a new session and grab all of the midi's etc. out of the old one (in the file browser) then rearrange them in the new session. If you drop one of the tracks and discover a massive CPU overload then you have the reason.

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z3ta+ doesn't support multi processing from what I know

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You said you disabled all plugins - does this include effects?

Does the project use a lot of samples, compared to other more "intense" projects which might just use a lot of CPU cycles? Maybe he's got a crappy hard drive and it's dragging things down.

Did you check memory usage? If you're running out of memory, or the page file is much bigger than it needs to be, it's going to start paging to disk. Same effect as above.

Is the same version of Ableton Live on both PCs?

Also check the number of threads that Ableton Live has spun off, on his computer compared to yours. If the number is ridiculously high, then a lot of CPU power is being wasted on context switches. Some particularly poor code might go nuts in a dual-core environment while playing it safe in a single-core.

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May be a dumb question, but is the option to allow multi-core processing turned on? I'm running the same processor, 4gigs of ram and have 0 problems - loaded with VST's and effects.

maby ur soundcard and drivers are configured wrong! this can cause cpu overload and freezing....

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Originally posted by DigiNut You said you disabled all plugins - does this include effects?

yes

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Does the project use a lot of samples, compared to other more "intense" projects which might just use a lot of CPU cycles? Maybe he's got a crappy hard drive and it's dragging things down.[/uote] no. Very little. 7 channels. [quote]Did you check memory usage? If you're running out of memory, or the page file is much bigger than it needs to be, it's going to start paging to disk. Same effect as above.

500mb of 1024. not that much.

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Is the same version of Ableton Live on both PCs?

yes

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Also check the number of threads that Ableton Live has spun off, on his computer compared to yours. If the number is ridiculously high, then a lot of CPU power is being wasted on context switches. Some particularly poor code might go nuts in a dual-core environment while playing it safe in a single-core.

Could be, only thing not checked from your list. It's quite strange. Anyway we made the deadline. I made all changes according to a to-do list we made together. After that I sent him the rendered project and he added things on top of that. Things work out and the track is ready for release probably within 2 months .

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Originally posted by Ray_Chappell May be a dumb question, but is the option to allow multi-core processing turned on? I'm running the same processor, 4gigs of ram and have 0 problems - loaded with VST's and effects.

I'll have to ask him hehhe. Would be a nice one if it isn't hahaha.

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