Hi, I am thinking of purchasing a receptor, but want to know which one.
I am looking at the latest Komplete 5. How many kontakt instruments would I be able to play at once, roughly speaking? How many synths (eg. absynth or massive) etc. Are there any guides that may give a rough idea for an answer to this question?
Cheers
How many simultanious plugins on Receptor 2
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi lukaskre8,
I just recently did some testing of Receptor 2 Pro Max running Uniwire. In some of my tests, I fully populated all 16 Receptor channels with a variety of different types of plugs (1/3 VA emulations, 1/3 Ram based sample players, 1/3 streaming sample players). Receptor was able to handle (moderate to heavy, sequenced) traffic on all 16 channels of this scenario without CPU overruns. I ran the same tests on a Rev C, and was able to get 8-10 channels before CPU overruns. These were artificial tests, not true sequence development - but I thought it did a reasonable approximation of usage. In hand-waving terms, I've noticed about a 30-40% increase in overall system performance between a Rev C and Receptor 2.
Hope this helps. I put a few notes below on variability in measurement.
Regards,
Kevin L
Notes on variability:
Of course, there are alot of variables to consider. You probably can't run more than 6 or so VA emulations with simultaneous MIDI traffic (eg. all Receptor channels responding to the same MIDI channels). In my scenario above with full population, you could get pops/glitches (from CPU Overruns) from simultaneous MIDI traffic.
There are lots of variables when simply using Kontakt alone. Kontakt can have multiple channels within the plugin itself. With the new Receptor OS, you can use Uniwire to send multiple Midi channels per Receptor channel. This dramatically increases the amount of work a given instance of Kontakt will do, allowing you to configure multiple channels of Kontakt instruments with their own MIDI assignments in a single Kontakt instance on a single Receptor channel. Also, consider any given Kontakt instrument may have scripting, which may vary in complexity as well.
All of this adds up to variance in CPU usage, based on what plugs are loaded.
I just recently did some testing of Receptor 2 Pro Max running Uniwire. In some of my tests, I fully populated all 16 Receptor channels with a variety of different types of plugs (1/3 VA emulations, 1/3 Ram based sample players, 1/3 streaming sample players). Receptor was able to handle (moderate to heavy, sequenced) traffic on all 16 channels of this scenario without CPU overruns. I ran the same tests on a Rev C, and was able to get 8-10 channels before CPU overruns. These were artificial tests, not true sequence development - but I thought it did a reasonable approximation of usage. In hand-waving terms, I've noticed about a 30-40% increase in overall system performance between a Rev C and Receptor 2.
Hope this helps. I put a few notes below on variability in measurement.
Regards,
Kevin L
Notes on variability:
Of course, there are alot of variables to consider. You probably can't run more than 6 or so VA emulations with simultaneous MIDI traffic (eg. all Receptor channels responding to the same MIDI channels). In my scenario above with full population, you could get pops/glitches (from CPU Overruns) from simultaneous MIDI traffic.
There are lots of variables when simply using Kontakt alone. Kontakt can have multiple channels within the plugin itself. With the new Receptor OS, you can use Uniwire to send multiple Midi channels per Receptor channel. This dramatically increases the amount of work a given instance of Kontakt will do, allowing you to configure multiple channels of Kontakt instruments with their own MIDI assignments in a single Kontakt instance on a single Receptor channel. Also, consider any given Kontakt instrument may have scripting, which may vary in complexity as well.
All of this adds up to variance in CPU usage, based on what plugs are loaded.
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- KVRian
- 691 posts since 13 May, 2004 from Silicon Valley
Hi thumky,
I'm pretty sure this was done at a buffer size of 64.
Regards,
Kevin L
I'm pretty sure this was done at a buffer size of 64.
Regards,
Kevin L
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- KVRer
- 9 posts since 11 Nov, 2010 from Orlando, FL
Hey there,
I'm trying to run BFD 2 and Kontakt 4.1 with the World Impact Global Percussion Library loaded. I'm having all kinds of performance problems, and this with the BFD quality levels set to LOW.
I'm thinking it might be a compatibility issue with 4.1 and Receptor, but I'm not sure how to verify this. Any suggestions?
I know I should be getting more than TWO simultaneous plugins running, based on the above!
Thanks.
Matthew
I'm trying to run BFD 2 and Kontakt 4.1 with the World Impact Global Percussion Library loaded. I'm having all kinds of performance problems, and this with the BFD quality levels set to LOW.
I'm thinking it might be a compatibility issue with 4.1 and Receptor, but I'm not sure how to verify this. Any suggestions?
I know I should be getting more than TWO simultaneous plugins running, based on the above!
Thanks.
Matthew
Matthew Antolick
Drums-Zendrum
Orlando, FL
Drums-Zendrum
Orlando, FL