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I am pretty confused about Live 8's cpu usage. I first noticed sound dropping out during playback, despite live's cpu meter being fairly low. I am using 8.1.3 with a dual core 2.53ghz MBP. I generally find that activity monitor says that live is using about 2 times more cpu than live's own cpu meter says. If i turn multicore support on, activity monitor shows no difference, but live's cpu meter drops down, making the difference about 3 times. But its when the activity monitor shows cpu running out, not when live shows it that the sound drops out. So turning multicore support on actually makes no difference in when sound drops out!Activity monitor also shows live using about 15% when first opened, despite live saying 0%.
I have tried changing audio buffer size, this does affect both cpu usage readouts, but the 2 or 3 times difference is always there no matter what its set to.
Mac Cpu Monitor
any advice would be much appreciated