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Prevalence · Post by **Prevalence** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:17 pm

In these days of Omnisphere and alike, I still find myself reaching for the CPU-friendly VST's on a regular basis.

Once I have, say, 3 instances of Omnisphere, Alchemy & Sylenth, and 6 instances of Stylus RMX, my Quad core 32 bit XP, PC is struggling for air....

So, for the additional synths thereafter i'm looking towards Albino, Sylenth, Blue etc...

So, i'm wondering what other CPU & RAM-friendly synths are worth considering? The best option would be a full-on Win 7 64bit machine, of course, with 12gb RAM.... but that will have to wait a year!

Best, Paul

Resonator63 · Post by **Resonator63** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:21 pm

Predator is very CPU friendly and sounds great.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:25 pm

hmm I would recommend you check out the products from these companies. All very CPU friendly and stable!

Fabfilter One
Fabfilter Twin2
Fabfilter Micro
Fabfilter Simplon
Fabfilter Timeless2
Fabfilter Volcano2

Korg Legacy M1 * Not yet 64 Bit
Korg Legacy Polysix * Not yet 64 Bit
Korg Legacy MS-20 * Not yet 64 Bit
Korg Legacy Mono/Poly * Not yet 64 Bit
Korg Legacy Wavestation * Not yet 64 Bit
Korg Legacy MDE-X * Not yet 64 Bit

Waldorf Attack * Not yet 64 Bit
Waldorf PPG Wave 2.x * Not yet 64 Bit
Waldorf D-Pole * Not yet 64 Bit

Sonic Charge Synplant * Not yet 64 Bit
Sonic Charge UTonic * Not yet 64 Bit
Sonic Charge Permut8
Sonic Charge Bitspeek

SFX Machine Pro * Not yet 64 Bit
Spectral Machine * Not yet 64 Bit

Lennar Digital Sylenth1 * Not yet 64 Bit for OSX

Linplug Albino 3
Linplug MorphoX

Gforce Minimonsta
Gforce Oddity
Gforce ImpOSCar2
Gforce MTron Pro
Gforce VSM

Tone2 Saurus
Tone2 Electrax
Tone2 Gladiator 2
Tone2 Warmverb
Tone2 BiFilter2
Tone2 Filterbank

Camel Audio Alchemy
Camel Audio Camel Phat
Camel Audio Camel Space

maurone dj · Post by **maurone dj** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:26 pm

+1 for the Korg series!

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:26 pm

Saurus, Predator, Microtonic

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:30 pm

KLC, Synth1, Elektrostudio, V-Station, PPG V.2, OP-X Pro II.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:32 pm

Anything that's been around a few years. Rhino, for example. .

baconpriest · Post by **baconpriest** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:35 pm

Linplug Cronox 4 is remarkably light on cpu, considering what it does.

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:38 pm

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... u+friendly
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... ht=low+cpu

filter303 · Post by **filter303** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:40 pm

Saurus, Gladiator, Electra-X and Synth1

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:49 pm

REFX's Nexus is easy on both on the CPU and RAM. There's supposed to be an update coming soon that speeds up the already fast load times too.

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:56 pm

obligatory Audjoo Helix mention

and obligatory company self promotions coming in 3,2,1..

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:16 pm

Synapse Audio DUNE

Prevalence · Post by **Prevalence** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:34 pm

Thanks for all the replies!!

I already have Preditor which is pretty good on CPU, most of the time.

Like the sound of the Korg Legacy synths, Dune, and Helix. I'm sure I have a CM copy of Rhino somewhere too!

Anything CPU-friendy for drums/percission? I use Stylus RMX a lot but it can blow out in the end.

Best, Paul

contrary · Post by **contrary** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:50 pm

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Your Favourite CPU-Friendly VST's....?