Abelton Live 9 100% CPU

[GV1]

I have a Sony Vaio Pro 13. Cost me a small fortune and the idea was to use it for software development, but it's so small that it's difficult. So I set it up over my midi piano (yes, a real midi piano, not a bog standard controller). I wanted to be able to just sit at the piano and jam without going to the studio.

I installed Live 9 on it and it was running fine, but after about 4 Operators I started to see the CPU bar in Abelton show 100%.

Now, I know this is a notebook, but this is a powerful notebook compared to others. It has 4GB ram and an i5 processor. About the same as a 2012 MacBook Air - which Abelton works just fine on. So I have a feeling this isn't an issue with the hardware.

What could cause this? I am using the ASIO driver, which I believe may be the culprit. On the other hand it might well be Windows 8. But I wanted to get some opinions on this and see if others have experienced this.

[GV1]

Plugged my IO|2 interface in, and it's now hovering at 47% I can live with that, but I'm certain it should have better performance than that.

[legend4ry]

What version of Windows 8? RT doesn't run Live.

What version of live? 9.what and are you running a legit version?

Have you tried another DAW? Thats how you will see if its a driver issue.

[__________]

Aren't you the guy who went to prison for hacking? How was it?

[GV1]

What version of Windows 8? RT doesn't run Live.

What version of live? 9.what and are you running a legit version?

Have you tried another DAW? Thats how you will see if its a driver issue.

It's Windows 8.1 I believe. I have the Live 9 Suite, latest one from the site. I have the disks, but this computer don't have a disk drive so I installed it from the account on the Live site. It's a legit version yes. I haven't tried another DAW on the machine because I only own Live.

[GV1]

Aren't you the guy who went to prison for hacking? How was it?

That was me yes. I got released a while ago, February 28th 2013. It wasn't too bad, just boring as fuck.