KVR Audio

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:59 pm

I just finished tallying the instruments and effects I used in 30 tracks on my first two CDs, and I found some interesting stuff:

- Not counting one-shot samples in FLSampler, I average 14.2 instances of instruments per track, and 8.1 unique instruments.

- The fewest instances of instruments I've used in a single track is 8; the most is 27.

- On average, I use 26.83 instances of effects plugins, and 16.97 unique effects plugins.

- The fewest instances of effects I've used in a track is 13; the most is (!) 51.

- Most instances of a single synth in one track: 9 (FL Slicer). Most instances of a single effect: 6 (a tie between FL Filter, FL Free Filter and CoFX Buffered).

- Most used plugins: MDA Detune 67 times in 27 tracks; z3ta+ 58 times in 21 tracks (though I didn't own it for the first 5).

- In 30 tracks I've managed to delete or lose 8 plugins

Anyway, the main thing I'm curious about is whether other people are using 27 instruments and 51 effects in a single track, or whether I'm just batshit crazy. I'm running on a Athlon XP-M 2500+ with 512MB of RAM, some of which is stolen for video memory. With one of these monster projects loaded but idling, I could be sitting at 90% CPU...

elv · Post by **elv** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:03 pm

I avarege 10-15 plugs in a song (effect and synth)....so yes.....your CRAZY

Hellbilly · Post by **Hellbilly** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:29 pm

And you haven't fried you CPU yet??

I use maybe 7-10 instuments and usually only 1-2 instances of each and very few effects.

This stuff seems to eat my CPU alive and i have a decent AMD63 3000+. Maybe it's because most of the synths i use are freeware synths made in SE.

How the hell do you manage to have so much going on with that Athlon?

ew · Post by ew » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:36 pm

You're batshit crazy

I think the most instruments I've ever used on a track is seven or eight- and that's including multiple instances. Maybe four or five effects on top of that.
It's not because of CPU issues either- my old machine's so slow I bounce half my tracks anyways

ew

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:46 pm

maybe only 4 or 5 instruments (moving more and more into playing with pre-rendered audio again) but i guess maybe 20 or so different effects in a 'typical' track ...

... i imagine the athlon stands up to that hammering due to fruity having that plugin management feature (assuming its enabled) ???

slainte

rob

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:48 pm

can you show those stats in graph format?

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:09 pm

nah,jsut a ham :p

i use a 1.2g and some dementia makes me avoid bouncing parts down.. for the limits i've got, i think same behaviour.. mebbe 20 odd vsti and 30 odd fx tops implicated.

RoyNoahJones · Post by **RoyNoahJones** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:17 pm

CypherOne wrote:can you show those stats in graph format?

ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:34 pm

I use vurtbox... only one of them sukkers per track (before all the CPU goes out the plughole)

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:45 pm

whats really crazy is taking the time to do all the math

splattabreakz · Post by **splattabreakz** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:49 pm

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:49 pm

I typically use 3 or 4

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:57 pm

I try a healthy diet, but ext just screams *gimme more plugs*

jens · Post by **jens** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:02 pm

pHz wrote:maybe only 4 or 5 instruments

yeah, but you don't finish your tracks...

elv · Post by **elv** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:05 pm

jens wrote:
pHz wrote:maybe only 4 or 5 instruments
yeah, but you don't finish your tracks...

Ouch that was a really low blow jens

Am I a plugin pig?