KVR Audio

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:33 am

I'm only using a PC with 8GB, and so imagine how quickly a few plugins loaded (400MB+) makes things unusable (Rob Papen plugins cough cough).

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:53 am

egbert101 wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:33 am I'm only using a PC with 8GB, and so imagine how quickly a few plugins loaded (400MB+) makes things unusable (Rob Papen plugins cough cough).

there's a repeated conflation of 'memory' with 'hard drive space' in this thread, starting with the OP. footprint on disk is not memory usage.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:10 am

Yes true. Imagine only having 8GB of hard drive space.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 2:30 am

The thing that kills me about Arturia is that so much of those large graphics are a pure waste of RAM, because they’re things like two key graphics for every key on the virtual keyboard, just so they can have a realistic perspective shot. Such a waste of resources.

panspOrmia · Post by **panspOrmia** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:00 am

Memory-hog plugins are usually a sign of poor coding.

hlmst · Post by **hlmst** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:55 am

A notable offender is Chowdhury DSP/Chow - as far as I remember most of his plugins (even the more basic ones) consume near 500MB of ram per instance.
Ever since I noticed the offense, I'm seriously considering demanding a refund.

Why are some FX plugins so big?