Your Favourite CPU-Friendly VST's....?
- KVRian
- 833 posts since 29 Jul, 2006
Going from A to Z I'd say Absynth and Zebra. Both sound great, are super versatile and can do bread and butter patches that barely register on the CPU meter. Both are especially good for synthetic clav, organ and epiano sounds.
Synthmaster in draft mode can also be an impressive workhorse without pegging your CPU. Plus you have the option of bumping up the oversampling for those hi-def screechy EDM sounds you crazy kids love these days.
Reaktor is not widely seen as a low CPU solution, but many of the older ensembles sound great with very modest resource consumption. And you can bump up the sampling rate here too.
CPU friendly percussion - Geist is your best bet here.
Synthmaster in draft mode can also be an impressive workhorse without pegging your CPU. Plus you have the option of bumping up the oversampling for those hi-def screechy EDM sounds you crazy kids love these days.
Reaktor is not widely seen as a low CPU solution, but many of the older ensembles sound great with very modest resource consumption. And you can bump up the sampling rate here too.
CPU friendly percussion - Geist is your best bet here.
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- KVRAF
- 5546 posts since 13 Feb, 2006 from Wiesmoor, Germany
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- KVRAF
- 2273 posts since 19 Sep, 2011
Prevalence wrote: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
3 instances of omnisphere gives you 24 tracks of instruments. if you were to put one type of sound on each out bass 01 a, bass 02 b, lead 01c, lead 02 d, lead 03 e, lead 04 f, pad 01 g, pad 02 h, with each out using two synth/sample layers you have all you need for a complete and solid track. then use the second instance of omnisphere for all your sweeteners like risers, swells, hits, etc etc theirs your finished track.
then automate things to give body and thickness. a song doesn't improve the more you add things to it. its just the opposite, songs are much harder to complete while maintaining some kind of organized simplicity.
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- KVRian
- 1092 posts since 1 Jul, 2008
- Banned
- 6129 posts since 9 Oct, 2007 from an inharmonious society
All Korg synths.
Synth1
Zebra (Depends on how much is used, but mostly very good on cpu)
Synth1
Zebra (Depends on how much is used, but mostly very good on cpu)
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- KVRist
- 317 posts since 16 Mar, 2014
Synth-1, PPG Wave 2V, ImpOSCar, all of Elektrostudio's kit, all GTG synths, HaHaHaCS33v2, Kamioooka, SQ8L, Superwave P8, Native Instruments Pro52 and Tone2 Firebird.
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- KVRAF
- 3879 posts since 28 Jun, 2009 from Wherever I lay my hat
"Track freeze". Unbelievably cpu friendly, and a great cure for tweakaritis and FOCS (fear-of-commitment syndrome).
- KVRAF
- 4437 posts since 15 Nov, 2006 from Hell
i got a top of the line octacore so everything is CPU-friendly for me.
also,
also,
i believe XP isn't that good at multiprocessing. so you'd probably be better off finally upgrading to something more recent.Prevalence wrote:my Quad core 32 bit XP, PC is struggling for air....
I don't know what to write here that won't be censored, as I can only speak in profanity.
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- KVRAF
- 11095 posts since 12 May, 2008
Synplant is very low.
FM8 barely registers. I love seeing that CPU reading at 1% on a synth where I'm playing a pad!
FM8 barely registers. I love seeing that CPU reading at 1% on a synth where I'm playing a pad!
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- KVRAF
- 5546 posts since 13 Feb, 2006 from Wiesmoor, Germany
I forgot to mention Surge! It sounds great, has great features and is very CPU friendly!
Cheers
Dennis
Cheers
Dennis