At least as far as the efficiency of the engine itself is concerned. and a own convolution reverb wouldnt hurt.It's apples & oranges because every other DAW out there looks bad compared to Logic's higher internal buffer for all nonselected tracks. that especially applies to compressor and eq 8. They sound way better when working on higher samplerates. I would wish that ableton plugs would get switchable oversampling abilitys. They are ok but not as good as the ones in other daw´s or dedicated 3rd party devices. Its rather the bread and butter plugs that can pose a problem. I hope I clarified your confusion in my statement, You missed the point.
Therefore yes you can open up WAY more plugins in logic, and better quality, because it handles plugins (AU) a LOT better than Ableton handles any of its plugins. I already tested a project using a collection of 3rd party plugins and a song recreated in both cubase 5.5 and Ableton, and the ableton project used a LOT more cpu than Cubase.Ībelton's cpu efficiency is HORRIBLE. Overall Ableton is THE WORSE DAW when dealing with cpu efficiency I have ever heard. When opening a 3rd party reverb in Ableton versus Ableton's reverb, the Ableton reverb is more cpu efficient than the 3rd party plugin, even if their quality is similar. as less cpu load your set creates as more stable it will run.Uhm you misread, I will clarify: I was only comparing a 3rd party plugin compared to Ableton's equivilent and their cpu usage IN ABLETON. and cpu efficany defently is an issue on stage with ableton live. first live likes to crash with many 3rd party plugs. Stage work the internal plugs are highly recomended. you can open 10 times more platinum verbs in logic than ableton reverbs in high quality.Īnd thats the quality you need to compare with the platinum verb. you can open in logic way more 3rd party vst´s than in live.Įspecially with the ableton reverb you can see that. Thats an illusion because live is in general very cpu unefficiant. and a own convolution reverb wouldnt hurt. The resonator is nice.the vocoder not bad. some are pretty unique like the grain delay, vinyl distortion or Erosion.
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But by now its a full featured daw and therefore compareable.
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not even able to run software synths or external midi devices. and the first years it was intended as a stage tool only.
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As of Apple using Intel based Macs that's no longer the case, and performance differences come down to how well you're able to tweak your platform for low latency performance (access to the BIOS and wider availability of power profiles and other OS utilities for system performance means Windows has an edge here, as does Win7's threading model).Īpples and oranges? not really.
In the PowerPC era Live ran the same on OSX as on Windows only if you avoided Live's internal plugins, as they were optimized for Intel cpu's while the audio engine itself ran fine on Intel or Motorola/IBM. So on that basis alone Logic gets dramatically better cpu performance but you wouldn't want Live to function that way for stage use.Īlso while sonically Live's reverb may not be too far off from Logic's platverb, the latter doesn't sound nearly as dense to me and has remained unchanged in its internal algorithm (had more delay lines added) since Logic 5, while Live's has improved over the years (compared to Live v3/4).Ĭompletely Apples & Oranges comparison imo. Logic runs everything but the currently selected track at 512 or 1024 buffersize internally, so only the current selected track in "Live Mode" runs at low latency. Live runs all channels/busses at the soundcard buffer (plus the internal live 'safety buffer' or whatever its called). 3phase, Live & Logic aren't directly comparable.