) Bitwig user, but - among others - I also have Live 10.1 Suite license mostly because of some old projects, potential collaboration opportunities, Push2 but mostly ...sentiment and appreciation for what a great DAW it is and that it helped me come back to music production after 18 years.But, again comparing to Bitwig, there's one thing in particular that irks me whenever I have to use it - the fact that it sits there, doing nothing & preventing me from doing stuff:
1) Boot up time is terrible - it can take 2-3 minutes, even longer when it scans / indexes for plugins and even then, when the screen finally shows up, it remains unresponsive for several seconds
2) Projects load for what seems to be an eternity, even if they're simple and using mostly native devices; and again - Live can get unresponsive for couple of seconds after opening a project, i.e. you can't play it even though it seems to be ready
3) Once the project is up, adding or switching to a track with a "new" native device (that you haven't used / touched in given session yet) results in it "freezing" for couple of seconds before you can do anything, sort of as if it was compiling the device in the background or something
I actually went and looked into Task Manager to see what's happening during launching Live, loading projects or adding new devices and for most of the time CPU does nothing or hovers around 5% use.
In contrast:
- Bitwig launches in a couple of seconds. Always. It doesn't scan plugins on startup, because it only looks at the directory if something changed and actually can do it while the DAW is running, so if you install a new plugin mid-session it just gets added to the library and you can use it right away without reloading Bitwig.
- when you load a project Bitwig gives you a progress bar plus an indication - on each track! - whether it's still loading (spinning wheel icon), so a) you can actually start playback if tracks that are still loading are further in the arrangement, b) you can see which track is particularly troublesome (eg. Waves' FlowMotion is one example, D16 Punchbox is the other) and bounce it & disable the VST if that's what you want,
- doesn't freeze when switching tracks or adding a device, even if it's the most complex Grid patch...
I've seen many people complaining about that, but I also saw many that say didn't have any of those problem. It all started with one of the pre-release v10 beta versions and I think it's somehow related with "integration" of M4L in Suite, but obviously I've no way to prove it. One time I made it better by reinstalling Live and cleaning preferences, but it didn't took long before it got to the above described state.
Any ideas how to remedy this?
