Diva CPU load

[Whirly]

I just downloaded the demo version of Diva (rev 1459). It sounds fantastic! My compliments to the u-he team and the sound designers that made the presets. However, the cpu meter in my hosts (Cubase 7 and Ableton 9) reaches 50% when playing back just one instance of Dive. Is this normal on a 8 core MacPro? It's 4-5 years old, but still....?

[murnau]

yep thats normal, it's a cpu-killer. make sure your accuracy is set to "fast".

[justin3am]

I think it depends on how many voices you are using, not how many instances.
My previous desktop computer was a 8core Nehalem based MacPro and I could run more than a few instances of Diva if I was only playing one or two notes at a time with short release settings. This was before Diva had multi-core support. Now I use a 12core westmere based MacPro now and I can use a handful of Divas without breaking a sweat.

If you are playing big chords, have multi-core mode disabled and using pad sounds with long release times you might use 50% of a single core with one instance. It also depends on the buffer size and sample rate you are using.

[Whirly]

Thanks both of you. To ensure further development of this really nice synth I thought I better get the activation code NOW! I'll deal with the lack of cpu later.

[EvilDragon]

Try other hosts which have much better multicore support, like Reaper.

[Whirly]

I guess I'm too sentimental to break up long-time relations over a few extra % of CPU. It's more likely I'll stick to two track-songs from now on.

[murnau]

reaper is great but the last time i evulate it with diva i had drop outs much more then with cubase.

[Tony Ostinato]

i use diva live with reaper:




works quite well.

i changed its pdc reporting to 0.