Why are some FX plugins so big?

[resynthesis]

Some anti-piracy software adds vastly to memory footprint.

[kritikon]

I was curious so I checked what I have installed. RX 7 Elements for some reason = 182 MB
RX 10 Advanced = 1.87 GB

Hmmmm...I was very close to upgrading Ozone from elements to standard, $115 seems good enough deal to me. Does anyone know how big Ozone standard is? It would be similar, I assume. 1.87GB is big enough to dissuade me. My laptop's not big enough to squeeze too many plugins of that size in, I only have 250GB SSD. I already excluded that megapiano in Cubase because it was 9 GB (surprised me how huge all of the sample stuff in Cubase is)

[egbert101]

Does your laptop have an SD card reader? If so, it's a sneaky way to double your internal storage.

[runagate]

I was curious so I checked what I have installed. RX 7 Elements for some reason = 182 MB
RX 10 Advanced = 1.87 GB

Hmmmm...I was very close to upgrading Ozone from elements to standard, $115 seems good enough deal to me. Does anyone know how big Ozone standard is? It would be similar, I assume. 1.87GB is big enough to dissuade me. My laptop's not big enough to squeeze too many plugins of that size in, I only have 250GB SSD. I already excluded that megapiano in Cubase because it was 9 GB (surprised me how huge all of the sample stuff in Cubase is)

I very badly want to come over to your house with more storage and jam.
I can't answer the standard version question but if you have the "everything" bundle apparently it's over 15 GB

[kritikon]

Y'know, I never even thought about that , doh! . Must check it out. I think it does. I've seen 128GB cards, do they go up to 256?

[kritikon]

Thanks for that info Runagate. Just those plugins alone would probably kill my modest laptop...

[Havok]

Thanks for that info Runagate. Just those plugins alone would probably kill my modest laptop...

Half of those are sound libraries for the Iris synth tbf, so you'd only be using a single sample from them as opposed to the entire library

[DCrown]

Arturia is terrible with longer loading times than other devs

[runagate]

Well, I have to thank you for inspiring me to check out neutron 4 advanced and thus stumble upon the fact that their loyalty offer from everything bundle to an on-sale bundle with neutron 4 advanced, ozone 11 advanced and guitar rig 7 (something I'd have never paid a cent for until the next komplete summer sale incidentally had it in there) was $50

N.I. may have lost it's way but if you buy stuff exclusively during crazy sales you can eventually get a tremendous amount of interesting things. Neutron has some sort of "analyze a vocal and impose it's character on some other vocal" thing in there I was in their livestream which I intend to use in ways they definitely did not intend it for which will for sure provide me with $50 worth of entertainment. I wish I was going from Elements to Standard so I could give you an intelligent comment on the difference but I long since got Advanced simply because I wanted RX advanced and, again, got it all for astonishingly little $

[egbert101]

Yes you can get 250GB or even larger SD Cards. But some systems don't read things over 250GB for some reason. I use my SD Card as a data folder for all my software resources and samples. They're not too expensive either.

[Winstontaneous]

To the OP: All those 1s and 0s gotta go somewhere!

[GaryG]

Wow what a fantastic life you must have if this is a problem for you. Millions of ppl fight for their life and then we have a random guy like you who whine over a free plugin on the net.

Ha, genocide in all but name happening in the Sudan but you're happy to 'continue this sentence with song lyrics'.

just sayin'

[Huémac]

Some anti-piracy software adds vastly to memory footprint.

This, and sometimes the interface graphics. It varies. It's annoying.

[lotus2035]

Wow what a fantastic life you must have if this is a problem for you. Millions of ppl fight for their life and then we have a random guy like you who whine over a free plugin on the net.

If the world had stopped turning every time someone had a fisticuffs then we would still be banging rocks together.

[mdstudio]

It's often the graphics that eat a lot of CPU and/or RAM. For example you close the plugin window and the CPU goes down dramatically. As for the RAM, instead of vector graphics, a lot of plugins use images, the size of which adds up.