i was just curious what vst's everyone is using live. more specifically, what vst's are all loaded at the same time! i'm in the middle of programming mine for my live set up and i am just curious if i will be running too many vst's at the same time to be stable live.
here's my intended set up:
-1 receptor with 1.5 installed
-1 instance of colossus running steiway piano and suitcase rhodes
-1 instance of native instruments pro-53
-1 instance of kontakt 2 running a mellotron flutes patch
-1 instance of guitar rig in the master bus
-trying to choose a good reverb to also put in the master bus (any suggestions?)
-also need a tremello - any sugguestions?
i am running this with an m-audio 88pro. i bought the colossus deal so my receptor came with 1.25gig of ram. would it really make that much of a difference on the CPU usage to upgrade to 2gig?
anyways, what's your setup?
todd
what's everyone's LIVE setup?
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- KVRist
- 59 posts since 7 Jan, 2004 from Los Angeles
You should be OK, but you may run into problems with DFD with Colossus and Kontakt running together. You might consider loading The Colossus instruments and the Melotron patch all into the same instance of Kontakt, not sure if that would improve performance. Turn off DFD on any Kontakt instrument that will fit into RAM. You can still take separate outputs into the mixer for your pianos and the Melotron.
The tremolo in Guitar Rig is good.
We have Ivory, Kompakt (strings), Pro-53, Absynth 3, MiniMonsta, B4 and FM7 all running together on a single Receptor - with 2GB of RAM - but Ivory's disk-streaming performance is much better than NI's, as documented elsewhere in this forum. I turned off DFD on the instance of Kompakt because the string samples fit easily into RAM.
Good Luck
Brian
The tremolo in Guitar Rig is good.
We have Ivory, Kompakt (strings), Pro-53, Absynth 3, MiniMonsta, B4 and FM7 all running together on a single Receptor - with 2GB of RAM - but Ivory's disk-streaming performance is much better than NI's, as documented elsewhere in this forum. I turned off DFD on the instance of Kompakt because the string samples fit easily into RAM.
Good Luck
Brian
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- KVRist
- 387 posts since 24 Aug, 2004
Running either:
Ivory for exposed piano only situations.
or the following multis loaded up at once, switching between the sounds as snapshots:
1. Mr. Ray ->Scarbee VKFX
2. B4II
3. Scarbee Wurly in Kontakt(16 bit and no DFD)->Scarbee VKFX
4. Minimogue
5. blank (used to pass through for a dual manual organ with an XK-3)
6. Kontakt II with 3 layers chooseable by mod wheel value, each with 2 mellotron sounds split across keyboard. No DFD.
I will sometimes use the Scarbee Rhodes instead of Mr. Ray, and substitute Mr. Tramp for the Scarbee Wurly. I can only load one at a time because I don't use Kontakt DFD.
Ivory for exposed piano only situations.
or the following multis loaded up at once, switching between the sounds as snapshots:
1. Mr. Ray ->Scarbee VKFX
2. B4II
3. Scarbee Wurly in Kontakt(16 bit and no DFD)->Scarbee VKFX
4. Minimogue
5. blank (used to pass through for a dual manual organ with an XK-3)
6. Kontakt II with 3 layers chooseable by mod wheel value, each with 2 mellotron sounds split across keyboard. No DFD.
I will sometimes use the Scarbee Rhodes instead of Mr. Ray, and substitute Mr. Tramp for the Scarbee Wurly. I can only load one at a time because I don't use Kontakt DFD.
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 27 Feb, 2006
Receptor (v1.5, 2GB RAM) running:
Kontakt 2 (strings, percussion hits, etc, Piano)
Akai DC Vocoder, with MIDI control, and MDA delay
MiniMonsta
impOSCar
Absynth 3
Certain patches in MiniMonsta take a bit of the processor power, but no dropouts.
The piano I am using is one of the ones that came with Kontakt 2. I turned off the DFD off on all groups, and I have much better performance. I also killed the convolution reverb as well.
I cannot go any lower than a latency of 128 with this setup.
AkNoT
Kontakt 2 (strings, percussion hits, etc, Piano)
Akai DC Vocoder, with MIDI control, and MDA delay
MiniMonsta
impOSCar
Absynth 3
Certain patches in MiniMonsta take a bit of the processor power, but no dropouts.
The piano I am using is one of the ones that came with Kontakt 2. I turned off the DFD off on all groups, and I have much better performance. I also killed the convolution reverb as well.
I cannot go any lower than a latency of 128 with this setup.
AkNoT