While running Ableton Live 8 after a project gets to a certain size, the audio starts to get a bit choppy and distorted. My levels are fine and is not the cause of the lag and chop.
I have samples set to 1024 and the high quality button selected which I need to hear the sound. I always lower these when I'm recording audio with my mic but I need to have these turned up to be able to mix master the song.
Anything I can do to lower the CPU usage? It sucks because I can't even use my iZotope Ozone plug-ins because of their CPU usage and they are AMAZING plug-ins that I would love to use.
EDIT
just upgraded to 6GB of Ram and SSD 500GB Intel Core Duo 2 Processor 2.26 ghz
I thought this upgrade would have fixed the problem but it hasn't. Ableton says CPU is maxing out 80-100% CPU usage and I don't believe this should happen.