Only just started using live 8.1, but was using live 5 for a few years. So I might not be taking full advantage of any new features, but when it comes to editing samples I use an external sample editor, just set up in the preferences, when you save and exit the external editor ableton automaticly updates.

As for albino 3, are you running the latest version (3.1) version 3.0 was not working properly with ableton.

I was having trouble with it the other day though, when ever albino was playing I was getting no signal to the master bus, but the rest of the tracks were showing on there channel VU meters, just not on the master, when I stopped albino playing everything started working correctly.

I dont get any cpu spikes though on my machine and cant remember getting the cpu meter above about 35% on my quad core 2.7 running windows 7.


I have found live 8 to be unstable on my machine and there are lots of reports of this on the ableton forum. tbh am much as I am loving live 8 and the apc 40, they are causing me some headaches.