Low CPU usage paid-synths?

[nicksohn]

Sylenth1
Gforce synths
synthmaster (one)

[tibah]

Absynth is my *go-to* in terms of low CPU usage.
Bitwig's own synths can be stacked into the hundreds and are nice for bread and butter purpose.
Saurus also had a very nice CPU:sound ratio in my book.

[Echoes in the Attic]

I was just playing around with the phonec demo. Pretty low cpu on that for a nice vintage sound.

[fluffy_little_something]

Yes, I think Phonec (and the ME80 as well) is based on Chris Kerry's older SE code, just taken outside the SE framework.

[DigiPour]

Would you consider Synthmaster One low CPU usage? It sips just .8% or so on my 4 year old i7 3770. Compared to some synths I've used, it is light. I just don't know what 'low' means here.

That is definitely lightweight.

And wow, Sylenth1 is very efficient. Impressive.

[re23071998]

Hive is quite heavy actually

[fanodu1]

Hive is quite heavy actually

At least if you try using it on older dual core CPUs with a lot of voices, yes I can confirm that but that's to be expected on 10 year old hardware.
I would say the only thing that's even more resource friendly than Sylenth and has comparable sound quality is Helix.

[bjclulu]

Albino3

Is that still being sold somewhere?

[nineofkings]

Audjoo Helix is ridiculously low considering how much it can do