KVR Audio

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:32 pm

Echoes in the Attic wrote:
breakmixer wrote:Alchemy
Is this a joke? One of the highest cpu synths I have! I suppose if you're doing really simple VA with it, it's not bad, pads can eat half a core easily!

Never had any issues with it at all, never had to check the CPU useage on it, never had a single tiny break up of sound, I only use a Core Duo too, so yeah seems fine for me.

Richard_Synapse · Post by **Richard_Synapse** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:10 am

Alchemy uses very little CPU here. DUNE is also light on CPU, unless you go too wild with unison and voice count.

Richard

Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:34 pm

breakmixer wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:
breakmixer wrote:Alchemy
Is this a joke? One of the highest cpu synths I have! I suppose if you're doing really simple VA with it, it's not bad, pads can eat half a core easily!
Never had any issues with it at all, never had to check the CPU useage on it, never had a single tiny break up of sound, I only use a Core Duo too, so yeah seems fine for me.

Maybe your core duo is actually i3 (2 cores)?

im using Core 2 Quad Q9400 with 2.67 ghz and simple 1 oscilator without modulation with unison at 21 takes 8 percent of CPU and thats without any additional effect, only 1 pure oscilator.

Even developers/people from camel audio admits that Alchemy is not easy on CPU.

Honestly i dont believe that it takes so small amount you are saying...

hlmst · Post by **hlmst** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:38 pm

george wrote:Phantom (FM) incredibly CPU efficient,
Corona (VA+WAVE),
Discovery (VA) or
Discovery Pro (VA+WAVE) (the latter using less than 16 voices).

Good products you're selling there but none of em have ever been very light on my processors.

optofonik · Post by **optofonik** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:03 pm

Tanks for the replies I'll be checking some of these out.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:11 pm

themachinelt wrote:
breakmixer wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:
breakmixer wrote:Alchemy
Is this a joke? One of the highest cpu synths I have! I suppose if you're doing really simple VA with it, it's not bad, pads can eat half a core easily!
Never had any issues with it at all, never had to check the CPU useage on it, never had a single tiny break up of sound, I only use a Core Duo too, so yeah seems fine for me.
Maybe your core duo is actually i3 (2 cores)?

im using Core 2 Quad Q9400 with 2.67 ghz and simple 1 oscilator without modulation with unison at 21 takes 8 percent of CPU and thats without any additional effect, only 1 pure oscilator.

Even developers/people from camel audio admits that Alchemy is not easy on CPU.

Honestly i dont believe that it takes so small amount you are saying...

Your problem is FL.

dexterbella · Post by **dexterbella** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:01 pm

EvilDragon wrote: Your problem is FL.

Absolutely. Alchemy uses a fraction of the CPU in Reaper that it does in FL - one of the reasons why I've now ditched FL.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:47 pm

If you need lots of instruments for real time playback, you might want to check out rewiring Reason into your DAW.

It's super good, can't recommend it enough for people with slower computers.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:51 pm

Richard_Synapse wrote:DUNE is also light on CPU, unless you go too wild with unison and voice count.

+1 for Dune, always amazes me, especially as i still have one of those antique Dualcore-CPU's.

george · Post by **george** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:56 pm

hlmst wrote:
george wrote:Phantom (FM) incredibly CPU efficient,
Corona (VA+WAVE),
Discovery (VA) or
Discovery Pro (VA+WAVE) (the latter using less than 16 voices).
Good products you're selling there but none of em have ever been very light on my processors.

Core i5/i7 result in very light CPU use, Core 2 Duo reasonably light, unless polyphony is set too high...

Are you sure Phantom is heavy? It runs very good even on a Pentium 4...

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:04 pm

+1 for DUNE, Synth1
GTG 44S
Sonigen Modular
Messiah
Pro-53
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Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:16 pm

dexterbella wrote:
EvilDragon wrote: Your problem is FL.
Absolutely. Alchemy uses a fraction of the CPU in Reaper that it does in FL - one of the reasons why I've now ditched FL.

not really, its because of reaper. It has some setting or something to put extra latency or something to dont put so much strain on CPU

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:31 pm

Not really, no. It's simply coded more efficiently.

ZenPunkHippy · Post by **ZenPunkHippy** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:38 pm

I just ran a quick test of Alchemy with 24 oscillators - similar to the patch themachinelt is using - in Reaper 4.25 and FL Studio 10.0.9.

Reaper: 2.5% CPU

FL Studio: 8% CPU

Note it was a very quick / rough test. Also the CPU meter in any host is not a very reliable way of measuring overall performance, it's just a rough guide. Better is to compare the number of instances that will run simultaneously but then it's not a real world test. None of this really matters, unless you are hearing pops n clicks due to CPU overload while working on a typical composition.

Peace,
Andy.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:41 pm

ZenPunkHippy wrote:in Raper 4.25

I couldn't resist quoting this. Hahahah.

Recomended low CPU impact VST instruments?