Cpu Maxed Out? Options

[Soyogen]

Hi guys. I just recently purchased a new macbook pro 2.0 ghz and I was shocked it's lack of performance with Live.

With just attempting to play a an instrument in "Operator" with the qwerty keyboard, the cpu jumps to +80%

I have no idea why this is. It's unusable. I have a 1.6 ghz windows laptop and Live works fine. The processor maxes out when I am running 7 or 8 midi tracks and streaming several waves from my hard drive, but that's reasonable. The Mac cracking up while playing one midi track is not.

I purchased the Mac hoping that it would show an improvement over the windows machine. Unfortunately, it's unbearably worse.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[rickenbacker]

The main development focus for Live 6 is mostly about dual processor support, so that should be a leap ahead for performance if you get that when it's released in a couple of month's time.

If you don't have the Universal update, as the previous poster wrote, get that. Operator patches can also be very demanding, with FX and the like in the chain. I don't know why you'd be getting one track at 80%, though - my PowerBook (note: PowerBook) can run a bunch of Operators before cracking up. What latency do you have set? Raise it until nothing stutters - 512, 1024, etc.