KVR Audio

alphadelphi · Post by **alphadelphi** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 4:49 pm

Just out of curiosity: what OS are you using?

'Cause I'm experiencing issues and CPU spikes on windows 64.

Ohlson_M · Post by **Ohlson_M** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 5:05 pm

Win 10 (64 bit)

alphadelphi · Post by **alphadelphi** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 6:04 pm

for what it worth, looks like OSx implementation cause a lot less issues.

Ohlson_M · Post by **Ohlson_M** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 6:46 pm

So why aren´t they fixing this on windows? It must be because they don´t know how to fix it. Surely, they must be aware of the problem.

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:52 pm

It has high CPU here on Mac no spikes, agreed seems to have been abandoned, not good.

Ohlson_M · Post by **Ohlson_M** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:24 am

Yeah, it feels as if they have abandoned Stacker. No updates in 5 months, no demo (!), no official thread on KVR Audio were the developers can have contact with already existing customers and potential customers.

alphadelphi · Post by **alphadelphi** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:43 am

Ohlson_M wrote:Yeah, it feels as if they have abandoned Stacker. No updates in 5 months, no demo (!), no official thread on KVR Audio were the developers can have contact with already existing customers and potential customers.

Considering the cpu issues, if there was a demo they would have lost a lot of custmers, i suppose.
By the way is hard to make a demo available for a sample based instrument.

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:08 am

alphadelphi wrote: By the way is hard to make a demo available for a sample based instrument.

FXpansion,New Sonic Arts,Renoise & TAL have no problems with releasing a demo for sample based instruments

Sample Magic failed to launch with this in my view

Ohlson_M · Post by **Ohlson_M** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:47 pm

alphadelphi wrote: Considering the cpu issues, if there was a demo they would have lost a lot of custmers, i suppose.
By the way is hard to make a demo available for a sample based instrument.

If that is truly the case, they risk more than they gain. Plugin not working = angry customers = bad reputation = reputation spreads on forums etc = bankruptcy (eventually). They can´t be that stupid, I really hope not.

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:33 pm

Ohlson_M wrote:
alphadelphi wrote: Considering the cpu issues, if there was a demo they would have lost a lot of custmers, i suppose.
By the way is hard to make a demo available for a sample based instrument.
If that is truly the case, they risk more than they gain. Plugin not working = angry customers = bad reputation = reputation spreads on forums etc = bankruptcy (eventually). They can´t be that stupid, I really hope not.

To be fair it does work here, the CPU is high but not unworkable at all and it is stable. My issue would be that some CPU optimisation should have happened by now, shame as it is a very good plugin.

Ohlson_M · Post by **Ohlson_M** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:16 pm

The problem with the windows version for me is that it is completely unusable. Almost everytime I audition any sample the CPU goes above 100%. This is even for samples with no heavy FX or modulation applied. And as I stated before, it can even happen when you open up the GUI (no samples loaded). Clearly something is very badly optimized within the plugin.

woodsdenis · Post by **woodsdenis** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:06 pm

Ohlson_M wrote:The problem with the windows version for me is that it is completely unusable. Almost everytime I audition any sample the CPU goes above 100%. This is even for samples with no heavy FX or modulation applied. And as I stated before, it can even happen when you open up the GUI (no samples loaded). Clearly something is very badly optimized within the plugin.

Yes thats pretty unacceptable.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:51 am

The price right now is even better than any previous sale. I'm still not sure though... (I use FL Studio on Windows 10). They still haven't updated/optimised yet have they?

db3 · Post by **db3** » Tue May 09, 2017 12:10 pm

Couldn't resist Stacker at 50% off today! https://www.samplemagic.com/details/606/stacker
Stable so far on my Mac, and probably no more CPU than Polyplex. A huge pile of a percussion plugin for peanuts.

*edit
Spoke too soon. Intermittent issues with no sound.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Tue May 09, 2017 7:35 pm

For 25 pounds I couldn't resist. Seems very stable on FL Studio, Win 10.

Half the CPU of Polyplex too, seriously.

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