Is Roland Cloud resource hungry?

[JerGoertz]

I've heard "bad reviews" of how Roland Cloud and/or the Roland plugins are CPU-hungry and have a heavy system footprint.

What's your experience?

[pljones]

I've a TD-27KV2 and have Roland Cloud Manager installed. It doesn't run unless you ask it to (so long as you don't ask it to run at start up - or did I have to actively disable that?). I'm not using anything from the store, though -- nothing that looked worth the price being asked. It possibly has "active" licence management, which basically rules it out for me, as I do not want anything using CPU actively when I'm performing - particularly on the network - except what I actually need. I wasn't entirely clear on that point but it seemed implied.

[JerGoertz]

Okay, so you're saying it won't run automatically, but you can still use the Roland plugins installed and authorized with it?