Tips to shorten Ableton loading times for projects w/ Toontrack Instruments?

[Melborne]

Hey Everyone,

Longtime user of Toontrack products. Especially with Ableton Live, any projects I have that contain Toontrack products load very slowly. It is not unusual for one of my projects to have at least one instance each of Superior 3, EZbass, and EZkeys. These projects generally take about 1 minute to load on average. If I remove the Toontrack plugins, the projects generally load within 10 seconds, sometimes faster.

I’m currently using an M3 Macbook Air with 16 GB of RAM and plenty of hard drive space. But, I used to have a Windows PC and had the same problem, although it was a little worse.

I absolutely understand that sample libraries take a while to load and are quite large, but is there anything I can do to speed up project loading times? Any tips or tricks for Mac I could try? External drives? Settings that could help? I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling, and contacted Ableton support as well. Seems to be worse with Toontrack products even though I love their stuff.

Appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Meb

 

 

 

 

Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

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[drumjack52]

The exact answer depends on external connections and that’s something you have to figure out on your own. The best general answer would be to get an external ssd and enclosure and put your samples on that connected to the fastest connection you have on the computer. Another thing is to keep in mind that you have an option in SD3 to load everything to ram or to stream from the samples drive. With 16 gig of ram you’re kind of ham-strung. You can never have too much ram.

The problem with your setup and this is with any system that has everything on the system drive is you only have one pipeline for data. The current Apple Silicon Macs are supposed to remedy that to an extent but I’d still want to have separate drives for samples. I run an ancient 2012 MacPro desktop with and SSD for the system drive that’s on the motherboard, a separate ssd for samples and a 7200 rpm spinner for sessions. 30+ track load times can be around 30 seconds or so.

Jack
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[Bear-Faced Cow]

Did you set drive type of your libraries to SSD? That will be a huge factor when loading

jord

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• This post was modified 8 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Melborne]

Thank you, Jack! I’m looking at external SSD drives now.

[Melborne]

Thank you, Jordan! You know what, I DID have SD3 set up incorrectly as HDD rather than SSD and it did make a difference! However, there’s no such setting for EZbass, EZkeys and EZdrummer 3, correct?

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