Using these live with Studio One V5. 5 tracks, three triggered by keyboard for Strings/Organ, and another 2 trigger by another keyboard for Lead (both MiniV, the latest).
On Mac, Mid-2014 MBP 16GB (1600) SSD i7 @ 2.5, latest catalina
On PC, Asus laptop (newer than the Mac) 16GB, SSD, i7 @ 2.7 - 2.9, win10 X64 latest
I've done this with a Focusrite Scarlette Solo, and a M-Audio Micro DAC (brand new).
THE MAC BLOWS THE PC OUT OF THE WATER. In face, the PC is unpredictable and unusable. When the VST overload happens, the PC CPU is not high, which makes little sense until StudioOneV5 is not optimized for the CPU on PC. Or these plugins, and I learn toward the plugins. I'm running both interfaces on both systems at the same latency (512). IN FACT, I can lower the mac to 64 on EITHER interface and it still runs fine on Mac. EVEN ON THE BUILT IN AUDIO DEVICE. WTH?
My GUESS is that those clever French Dev's at Arturia use big honkin Macs to code and test this, and use some kind of cross compiler for PC.
Insight anyone?
And please don't say "use different plugins". These are the ones I need to recreate much of "Dogs" from Animals album by Pink Floyd live.
Thanks in advance!
Latency of MiniV3, oxba and solina, and B3V on Mac vc PC
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- KVRian
- 1116 posts since 22 Apr, 2005 from Nashville, TN USA
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1116 posts since 22 Apr, 2005 from Nashville, TN USA
I always turn off the effects on the VST's and use something else in StudioOne. Something I KNOW is easy on the CPU (on the PC). It's a fair point though. I'm sure there are other ways to get certain plugins to take less CPU, by I want to know why my test is SO skewed in favor of Mac. Makes zero sense to me!
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1116 posts since 22 Apr, 2005 from Nashville, TN USA
I used to use PC's 10 year ago for music, and now I remember why I switched to Mac.
I did all the optimizations suggested by Presonus, and this whole setup now runs acceptably on the PC. It's the same PC tuning tips fro 10-20 years ago for audio. And some new ones of course. Amazing how much it helps.
I did all the optimizations suggested by Presonus, and this whole setup now runs acceptably on the PC. It's the same PC tuning tips fro 10-20 years ago for audio. And some new ones of course. Amazing how much it helps.
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- KVRAF
- 12055 posts since 12 May, 2008
Just curious, what were those optimizations?
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- KVRAF
- 2254 posts since 10 Apr, 2002 from Saint Germain en Laye, France
do you know the speed of your cpu running Windows ?
i mean the speed displaying by Windows not the spec sheet from Intel.
You need to put your PC in Performance mode not in eco or battery save usage (i have Win10 in French, i don't know the terms used on an english Win10 machine)
i mean the speed displaying by Windows not the spec sheet from Intel.
You need to put your PC in Performance mode not in eco or battery save usage (i have Win10 in French, i don't know the terms used on an english Win10 machine)
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- KVRAF
- 3017 posts since 8 Jun, 2018
there are so many i7 types that i7 says nothing about performance.
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