Lightweight effects. Your suggestions please.

[kelldammit]

For bread and butter mixing stuff (gate, eq, comp, etc), i'd suggest the metric halo channel strip. It's VERY light weight and does a pretty good job, despite being a bit long in the tooth. For fx, maybe u-he's ubik stuff? I like the psp 42 and 85 for delays, as well.

[jens]

Lightweight fx = shit TBH.

That said, the Klanghelm stuff is pretty low CPU to sound quality ration.

Otherwise, it's like with soft synths really. Good sound quality comes at a cost.

Complete bullshit!

Valhalla, Boz, Overloud, some Waves Stuff (API 2500, the V stuff and more), some IK stuff (Opto Comp, 670 and some others), several Eventide plugins, UVi Rotary and even more so GG Spin, PA ADA Flanger, 2CA PBJ and others - all this stuff is super light on the CPU and sounds great.

[ericzang]

I've been compiling a list for myself and a friend, hopefully its understandable enough for anyone. The fx are ordered lowest cpu use to highest, the ranking index (for example: .06) coming from Reaper's Performance Meter. The numbers relative to each other is the significant conclusion. Unfortunately for most of the testing I didn't make note of the fx I tested that were high cpu.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bq6 ... sp=sharing

[jochicago]

Very low CPU effects:

- Your DAW stuff should have you covered.

- The Air Creative FX Plus Bundle can often be had for around $20 and it has the effects that came in Pro Tools and we've heard in countless award-winning records. Those are old but reliable and very low CPU. It's like 30 effects.

- If you want a top notch channel strip with "analog" tools, look at the McDSP 6050. Can often be had on sale for $50 or less, and comes with just short of 30 top-tier effects: compressors, eqs, saturators, gates, etc. All incredibly low CPU and great quality. McDSP excels at figuring out how to get the effects to work without needing oversampling and using clever efficient algorithms.

- The only thing I would add is a solid reverb. Typically the DAW's one is not great, and the one in the AIR bundle although low CPU is not going to win awards, I would not use it for render. There are a few good choices, and I would recommend PhoenixVerb when on sale, can be found for under $30.

Honorary mention: the ToneBoosters v3 bundles. Affordable, great, powerful, low CPU.

[paradisebunny]

I've been compiling a list for myself and a friend, hopefully its understandable enough for anyone. The fx are ordered lowest cpu use to highest, the ranking index (for example: .06) coming from Reaper's Performance Meter. The numbers relative to each other is the significant conclusion. Unfortunately for most of the testing I didn't make note of the fx I tested that were high cpu.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P2t ... 41gOU/edit

this is great! thank you! [microtun] stands for microtuning?

[MogwaiBoy]

Low CPU: Kilohearts

[KXN]

Fabfilter Pro-Q.

[ericzang]

this is great! thank you! [microtun] stands for microtuning?

Thanks! Yes that's right.

[GaryG]

Orilriver is an amazing sounding reverb with negligible cpu load in my experience (recently Reaper on an old i5 laptop).

[excuse me please]

A1Triggergate

[Rickskii]

Loads of great stuff that is low in CPU.

All Valhalla stuff
New KH-1 comp by BR
smartcomp
True Iron
Eventide Omnipressor
All the PA strips
Crave EQ
Echoboy....to name just a few.

Best Rick.

[BaronWaterpark]

Pretty much all Waves stuff that came out before 2014. And PSP plugins (I haven't tried the new channel strip so not sure about that).

[k2006]

Reverb - Orilriver +1

[gondii]

The Plug & Mix VIP bundle containing 50 fx is currently on sale for $49. Maybe an option here?
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/au ... vip-bundle

[ericzang]

added several more reverbs to my ranking list above