I'm running FL 5 studio, and in my current project, I have 4 Native Instuments VST's running, and my CPU limit is hitting like 26%. During playback, there's a lot of static type sounds that come in and distort the hell out of the sound. I have a Sony Vaio desktop that has 1 GB ram...is it possible that those 4 VST's are really using up that much CPU?

yep, NI synths are greedy mo fo's.
Reaktor can be quite bad

ahhh, figured as much. I have 1GB memory now...I guess it makes sense to beef that up a bit. Is installing more memory a difficult process?

No, it's not. Try not to touch any of the electronic components, just handle the green part. If it's DDR memory, make sure you install it the right way, one side has more pins than the other. If you do it wrong, you might flip a voltage pin up and short your board, your memory, and your power supply.

Other than that, it's really easy.

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I have a celeron 2.2, 512ram using fl studio 5 and NI, dont really have anyproblems, its probably not your ram or cpu, probably underruns on your sound card, turn up your latency on your sound card.


I have 2 instances of reaktor and 2 instances of Ni-Pro 53, runs at like 47% cpu I know I had to turn up my latency settings within fl studio to stop it from making a crackle sound.

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Last edited by tripudio on May-17-2005 at 23:02

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Originally posted by Kiddy5825 yep, NI synths are greedy mo fo's. Reaktor can be quite bad

yes I noticed it, Reaktor only can take up more as 55% of my cpu (2600mhz)

It eats my cpu too.... especially reaktor

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Originally posted by zizack I'm running FL 5 studio, and in my current project, I have 4 Native Instuments VST's running, and my CPU limit is hitting like 26%. During playback, there's a lot of static type sounds that come in and distort the hell out of the sound. I have a Sony Vaio desktop that has 1 GB ram...is it possible that those 4 VST's are really using up that much CPU?

it depends on which synths. i consider fm7 and pro53 to be ones of the most efficient synths out there in the vst universe. battery 2 can be a cpu hog sometimes, and reaktor can eat up a cpu in the blink of an eye. consider increasing your buffer size a bit.

Reaktor 5 is even worse!

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Originally posted by tripudio I have a celeron 2.2, 512ram using fl studio 5 and NI, dont really have anyproblems, its probably not your ram or cpu, probably underruns on your sound card, turn up your latency on your sound card. I have 2 instances of reaktor and 2 instances of Ni-Pro 53, runs at like 47% cpu I know I had to turn up my latency settings within fl studio to stop it from making a crackle sound.

Mine makes a crackling sound, when you say turn up the latency, do you mean increase or decrease the size of the buffer?

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I can sometimes decrease the buffersize and the crackling goes away

up the buffer, stick polling + hardware buffer on

ive only got 512mb ram and get by, just lol. the hardware soundcard gets an extra 10% worth of cpu or so for you to play with if you fancy upgrading there

you can always bounce the track to wave and import which reduces the cpu a lot if the instrument has a high polyphony

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