I don't believe Omnisphere 3 is using multi-cores in stand alone or VST. However why not just use multiple instances tracks/channels instead?
You could check in your DAW as it may handle your cores better.
Omnisphere 3
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- KVRian
- 902 posts since 12 Sep, 2007
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- KVRist
- 403 posts since 6 May, 2004 from Land of a million drums
A single instance of Omni though it has 8 slots does not use multiple cores. If you're cpu can't handle 8 slots at once try opening multiple instances and it will spread it over different cores.buzz1 wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 4:29 pm Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 2840 posts since 24 Nov, 2023
I do this all time. In fact I am currently doing it with three different computers. Two for synths, and one for effects. It's actually a good way to bring new life to old/spare computers.buzz1 wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 4:29 pm Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks
I use a software program called Audio Gridder. It's free and open sourced.
https://audiogridder.com/
Essentially the extra computers become "DSP Servers". On these DSP Servers you launch an instance of Audio Gridder and host the plugin inside of it. In your DAW on a track you then launch the Audio Gridder plugin it will see the server and the instance and it will send MIDI or Audio to it, and then the plugin across the network will send audio back.
If you run additional instances each one will be on a new core. So if you have 8 available cores you can run 8 instances and they all go on different cores. That can be 8 different Synths or the same synth running as 8 different instances
You can even pull up the GUI from a plugin on one of the DSP servers on your main DAW computer
