FL Studio poor CPU / Audio performance compared to Presonus Studio / Cubase. How to optimize?

[HREQ]

Hello, thank you imagine line for personally addressing these issues!

I tried the "plugin behaving badly" thing, surprisingly I had to enable it on ALL THE PLUGINS in the mixer, and each time I did, the CPU would go down more and more lil by lil. I ended up at 80% CPU and was able to play the project with midi notes on all guitars and it was hitting "90 to 95%" much better then the 150% usuage I think it was doing before..


I had to go into each plugin, and check the Use fixed size buffers then "Process Maximum Buffer" also the other option there.

It's weird though, the plugins are Izotope, waves, reputable plugins. literally each time I did this with each plugin it would go lower by 1 to 3%.


In cubase I still get much more out of CPU usage, but I am using their "ASIO Guard" checkbox, I'm not sure what that does.

I am going to get a 300$ audio interface soon to see If I get better CPU usage, I'm also thinking of trying the mac version.

I just want to get the same performance completely that other daws get in FL, then I can use it's mixer in a stanard way


BTW, the automatic PDC delay update was great, that has been a problem forever with Bias for me here. Can't wait for the other updates, i'll update the first post, cause I don't want to slander your company or anything like that.

@jtrak

Thanks, I will try that out. I think the ASIO Guard may be giving me the extra performance, just like the new Presonus Studios "hybrid engine"