KVR Audio

Cuauhtli · Post by **Cuauhtli** » Sun Jul 26, 2026 1:51 pm

I use a laptop i5 (10th gen) Win 10, Ram 12 GB, graphics chip unknown. Pigments takes a few seconds to load, same as Amplitube and some others. Less than 5 seconds.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sun Jul 26, 2026 3:53 pm

Teksonik wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 1:16 pm What operating systems do those PCs run? As I said before there is some reason why load times are long for some users but not others. Mine loads in 4 seconds here on Windows 11. Some people reporting long times are using Win 10 and Mac OS.

I don't know if that's a clue or not. CPU/GPU/HDD vs SSD could also play a role.

For the record I like Pigments a lot but obviously the slow load times reported by some and the high RAM usage need to be addressed by Arturia if they care to do so. Failing to address the issues in a timely manner is just negative press for them.

It's been a problem with all updated Arturia plugins for a while. Whoever's their new UI person has traded realism for resources. If you look, every key on the virtual keyboard is a unique graphic. Every knob is a unique asset, and think of that as being multiplied by each knob position. In my opinion, this is wasteful, even if you have a huge SSD.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sun Jul 26, 2026 4:00 pm

Cuauhtli wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2026 1:51 pm I use a laptop i5 (10th gen) Win 10, Ram 12 GB, graphics chip unknown. Pigments takes a few seconds to load, same as Amplitube and some others. Less than 5 seconds.

Amplitube takes forever to load on my i9 with 36 gb and a nice Nvidia graphics card. Bitwig gives me a warning that there might be a problem that it's taking so long. They're another company that laughs at resources. Those amp faces are all big, high resolution graphics. Stupid. I don't need to see a photorealistic amp on my simulation. Look at how Native Instruments does it. You get the idea of what amp you're using, but it doesn't waste screen space or RAM.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Jul 26, 2026 4:05 pm

Definitely a lot of differences between the way different developers render/draw the GUI. Or, ressource management in general.

Cavey Arrgh · Post by **Cavey Arrgh** » Sun Jul 26, 2026 4:31 pm

I have a bog standard Dell desktop i3030, from Costco, nothing fancy. 32Gb ram. Win11. i7 14700 I think.

Arturia FX and synths load in 3 seconds or less, and even Massive X takes less than 5. I only say this to make the point that even "standard" PC configurations are complicated and varied across users, so I understand why plugin companies can't always optimize or fix issues for everyone.

I have stops and crackles when using my DAW (Reason 12, also happens with Reaper), even though I have a separate dedicated USB card for my MOTU M2 to connect to. So I have issues as well, just different ones. I've tried all the PC tweaks known to man, nothing completely solves it. The separate USB card helped the most.

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