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I recently purchased Massive and installed in on Ableton Live 7. Everything in Live was running fine for a couple of days and then even without Massive being used I am getting CPU spikes. It's not really all that excessive, it will jump from 20% to around 50%. But it does this fairly often and slightly glitches the playback when it happens.

I should probably ask this on the Ableton forum, but I wasn't sure if any of you had a similar problem after installing Massive? Like I said I won't even use Massive and get these spikes, whether thats just having a simple drum rack open or any other sound.

Used Live 7 for a full year with this never happening.

Richard Sweat wrote:I recently purchased Massive and installed in on Ableton Live 7. Everything in Live was running fine for a couple of days and then even without Massive being used I am getting CPU spikes. It's not really all that excessive, it will jump from 20% to around 50%. But it does this fairly often and slightly glitches the playback when it happens.

I should probably ask this on the Ableton forum, but I wasn't sure if any of you had a similar problem after installing Massive? Like I said I won't even use Massive and get these spikes, whether thats just having a simple drum rack open or any other sound.

Used Live 7 for a full year with this never happening.

MASSIVE is a CPU whore.. I tried to run MASSIVE on my G4 with a gig a of ram and it was not having.. I would only recommend Massive if you have the dual core or better.. Other wise you freeze the track after you make the midi and bounce everything to audio..

Take the massive vst out of your plugins folder and see if you still get the spikes.

notch wrote: MASSIVE is a CPU whore.. I tried to run MASSIVE on my G4 with a gig a of ram and it was not having.. I would only recommend Massive if you have the dual core or better.. Other wise you freeze the track after you make the midi and bounce everything to audio..

Right, but like I said the spikes now happen when I'm not even using Massive. My computer is dual core with 4 gigs of ram, so my computer itself spec wise isn't the issue.


"Take the massive vst out of your plugins folder and see if you still get the spikes."

Noted! Will try this when I get off work! Just wanted to see if anyone else had a similar issue.

I appreciate the input fellas!

Yeah your pc sounds like its up to the job. My old duel core with 2gig ram definitely wasnt. Recently brought an i7 machine with 6gig ram, and can run ableton & massive amazingly.

Try fiddling with your audio settings. Ive got my output buffer size @ 704 samples. I/O sample rate @ 44100

Works wicked for me, hope this helps

Thats one thing I have been confused about. The output buffer size. I will toy around with that as well!

6 gigs of ram, niceeee!!

dammit...removing massive didnt help.

tried changing the buffer size too but it is locked to 264 samples....this is annoying haha.

Did you try changing it while there are no audio programs open?

Jason

its locked cause its controlled by youir hardware(soundcard)
you have to find the dialog of your hardware

Or if you're using ASIO4ALL, the ASIO4ALL control panel