KVR Audio

ZenPunkHippy · Post by **ZenPunkHippy** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:44 pm

D'OH!

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:12 pm

Another CPU friendly thing that I don't believe is mentioned yet, Z3ta.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:14 pm

http://www.ymck.net/magical8bitplug/index.html

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:42 pm

Nexus 2 very low cpu.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:31 am

A very good swiss army knife and uses almost no CPU with a fantastic sound and being modular:

MuTools MUX: http://www.mutools.com/mux-product.html

and there is a promo offer of 49,- € till th 31th of august too: http://www.mutools.com/mux-shop.html

if you don't this beast, you should have a go with it...

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:23 pm

Luxonix Purity is one of the most efficient plugins that I own.

(Everything eats a lot of CPU in FL Studio.

)

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:46 pm

george wrote:Phantom (FM) incredibly CPU efficient,
Corona (VA+WAVE),
Discovery (VA) or
Discovery Pro (VA+WAVE) (the latter using less than 16 voices).

SPAMVERT!

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:40 pm

Oh I see the spam bots from the companies chimed in to praise their crap

Very low on CPU and very versatile is the Rob Papen stuff. I would not recommend all from Papen but Predator is very nice.
Tone2 Saurus, not a CPU hog also when used with Unison. It seems this stuff is very optimized.
Fabfilter Twin2 yes, very light on CPU and very versatile. I personally don't like this a bit cheesy sound, but I would give it a try.
Arturia, some like it some not... But the CPU consumption is not very big. I would give it try too. Eventually start with the Oberheim SEM.
NI Absynth very light on CPU and _very_ versatile - but also a bit "special"

Imageline Harmor, some very interesting ideas, very good sound. Seems it's a bit under the radar. There is not much marketing by Imageline.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:04 pm

ZenPunkHippy wrote:I just ran a quick test of Alchemy with 24 oscillators - similar to the patch themachinelt is using - in Reaper 4.25 and FL Studio 10.0.9.

Reaper: 2.5% CPU

FL Studio: 8% CPU

Note it was a very quick / rough test. Also the CPU meter in any host is not a very reliable way of measuring overall performance, it's just a rough guide. Better is to compare the number of instances that will run simultaneously but then it's not a real world test. None of this really matters, unless you are hearing pops n clicks due to CPU overload while working on a typical composition.

Peace,
Andy.

I use Ableton Live on mac. Like I said, using the VA capabilities is indeed pretty efficient. However try the Alchemistry bank by Simon S. Individual patches can cause clicks and pops on my i7 macbook pro with one instance! I really can't tell why.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:07 pm

Check out Sonic Charges Stuff too, especially synplant!

rank · Post by **rank** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:14 pm

So is there one cohesive list from all of these sugestions?

Out of time and feeling lazy today.

--Rank

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:16 pm

Sylenth
Predator
Sonigen
Helix
Synth1
ZynAddSubFX
VAZ
Alpha 3

Recomended low CPU impact VST instruments?