anybody else find ableton renders tracks slow

Waddup G !
Never really noticed it was that slow myself. I also use FL8/9 and that can take forever to render (depending on how loaded with plug ins it is and quality settings of file export)
Mind u, rendering a 45 minute dj set is kinda zzzz...hehe.
I tend to hit render and go make a coffee or something lol !

Ah Coz is good!
Hope u liked lol !

Hey what bit depth are you rendering out at ?
If you doing 32 bit renders its a bit overkill, theres not much audible difference between 16 bit and 32 bit.
Maybe worth a try ?

Ps..what cpu u running ?

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I am just making the switch to ableton from cubase, and I am finding ableton renders track files slowwwwwwww. Is this a setting problem or is this the norm. Cubase was a lot faster in this department for me.. Maybe I am over looking something..

I can render a two hour mix in approx. 10 minutes
so it's probably your processor slowing things down.

disable making of asd file and will be much faster

I Just upgraded to Ableton Live 8 about 25 min ago. Before I got to loading one of my old Live 7 sessions I had been working on, I noticed how slow ableton was performing. CPU is 3x higher then normally in Live 7, and everything is running horribly slow; Tabbing between Session and Arrangement view, loading/deleting tracks, visual representation of audio levels render slowly on screen, etc. I even deleted the session down to two tracks to see how it performs and nothing changes. Poop!

This is a major problem bro...MAJOR

I have moved back to version 8.09 as this is the last clean version before they implemented the max4live technology...and yes even 8.2 is pretty slow (though a tad better) but it hasn't been fixed yet. If I didn't absolutely love Ableton soooo much more than any other DAW I would totally bail on it. In fact I have bailed on Ableton a few times since I started using it in version 1.5 (when they introduced the render function) If stability and speed is your main focus switch to Reaper. Nothing runs faster, is more lightweight on your system, and customizable than Reaper..nothing. Absolutely positively HORRIBLE interface though... I stuck it out for almost a year before realizing that it was taking me 3 times as long to write...lol..Even though I could have 150 vsts rocking on 60 tracks with mad busses and routing at about 25%cpu I had to get away from that ridiculous interface. Cubase 5 is probably the best Daw out there right now for a balance between stability and ease of use but nothing is faster than writing a track in Ableton...nothing. Wish I had better news but at least there is a workaround for now

Also...from what I hear this is only affecting us WINDOWS users...Mac osx seems to be running more smoothly from what I hear since the max4live integration but still slower than before. I wouldn't go selling your machine or making a hackintosh just yet however...see if you can deal with 8.09 first. I am pretty picky and my tracks are very cpu intensive yet I have managed to craft a solid workflow so I am pretty confident most people can...GOOD LUCK!