KVR Audio

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:39 am

rusetsky wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:Demo'd. Insane cpu usage. Pass.
upgrade you system i7-3770 8 key chord, 8 spire with 4 osc and 9 voice detune

Cool pic, but when you make this claim it makes me wonder what your CPU consumption was in % ?

Update a picture and show us how much CPU the project was using.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:08 am

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V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:16 am

I was sort of drunk when I posted that reply and missed the CPU meter in the picture.

rusetsky · Post by **rusetsky** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:28 pm

V0RT3X wrote:
rusetsky wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:Demo'd. Insane cpu usage. Pass.
upgrade you system i7-3770 8 key chord, 8 spire with 4 osc and 9 voice detune

Cool pic, but when you make this claim it makes me wonder what your CPU consumption was in % ?

Update a picture and show us how much CPU the project was using.

Load no more than that. When polyphony 9 voices have crackling begins. Each instance of the synthesizer is loaded into a separate thread. Logic works well with virtual threads. Sorry for my english

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:49 pm

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vega555 · Post by **vega555** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:54 am

Spire Synthesizer update to v0.9.7
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- Fixed: OSX Midi Learn Click Start
- Fixed: Old bank read some errors
* Update: Chorus delay linear modulation

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:20 am

loving the Spire Demo

. but its really hard on the cpu.
is there a way to integrate something like draft mode? and offline mode?
so a few cpu saving modes would be awesome.

Gucky · Post by **Gucky** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:53 pm

Unfortunaly it is to hard for my cpu too.
So I think also there must be a some quality modes for playing and for rendering like in Diva. Then I would buy it.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:35 pm

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Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:43 pm

+1 on lowering the cpu consumption (drastically if possible)

nIGhT-SoN · Post by **nIGhT-SoN** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:24 pm

Insane CPU usage. It looks nice and sounds nice, but not worthed for me. There are a lot of synths that uses a lot less cpu power and get the job done. If you want to take some part of the market you have to do something about that, or it will end as a good synth that few people uses.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:33 pm

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Davias · Post by **Davias** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:24 am

+1 for the cpu...

I cannot find till when the introductory price lasts. For now just cannot use Spire on my comp (I7 860 @2.8 Ghz) so I cannot buy. The full price is just outside of my price range... The sound is nice, but nothing overwhelming, but I didn't try to make my own patches yet. Even the introductory price is a little bit too much for my taste (damn VAT, is there a way to buy in dollars instead ?).

My question is a little bit the same as Theo's one, what exactly is planed to about cpu usage ? If I'm sure I could run it in the future I might be interested to buy it now. But if I'm not sure, I will not risk, and the full price -> not for me. So I'm hesitating now, coz I like the concept and I'm sure if I dig it, it could be a workhorse.

I don't need an arp, and step sequencer is sooo nice for modulations, but I can wait. CPU is my main concern, I would like to love the synth, but 70% for some patches that sounds ok nice but that's it is preventing me to open the purse for now.

Sorry if my message can seems rude, it is just that I become crazy since one week hesitating to buy Spire or not ^^

Cheers.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:28 am

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Davias · Post by **Davias** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:54 am

Hmm in fact I don't know what happens but since the first day my comp has problems to behaves properly... I bought it 2 years ago focusing on music production. That CPU, with 8 Go ram, SSD for OS and music programs, 1To disk for daily stuff and then 2x2To + 2x1To in Raid for safety storage of projects, samples, music, pictures and other stupid stuff.

And I put 2 ATI in crossfire for casual gaming.

Many many usb devices plugged in...

At the end the comp takes 10-15 mins to boot :O
Has CPU overload very quick with music.
Behaves smoothly with games but some of them needs extra tweaking to run well.
Behaves ok while doing normal stuff (internet, windows, documents, I don't know). Maybe I should format or overclock but I'm too lazy and not good at comps to do it so I manage with freezing and so on

Sorry to go OT, but coming back to Spire, if I can't run two instances in a project, I think I will never use it, because as far as I like its sound, it is very nice but not tremendous, I can achieve equivalent results (to my hears) with Feldspar for OSC 53 (for now... I didn't dig deep). And I don't like to use one synth as a star (because with this CPU it should be the star, I will not use 25-75% of my CPU for a casual sound) if it is not outstanding. So I may go for Synthmaster instead seeing the modulations, morphing, import waves possibilities.

I know it is not easy to assert that the CPU usage will improve by "that much percent", but again for me to invest now, I have to think about the future, so it would be nice to know a rough estimate of CPU improvement planed, to know if I may be able to invest in it and use it in the future. If not, for same full price I'd prefer to go with Helix that seems to sound tremendous and they announce really low CPU hit (but I didn't try the demo yet, maybe it will hang my system too

)

So to resume, I have a lot of hope and faith in Spire, but I'm scared I could not use it the way I would like and finally be disappointed after buying it.

And again, if there is a way to buy it legit but avoid the 21%VAT I would be quite more eager to do it without thinking too much (GAS here

).