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B_man
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Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Red Wing, United States (a deep pit... very deep)

Synths and Processing Power

Greetings! Just out of curiosity, what soft synths do you rate better than others in terms of CPU use? My curiosity was poked when I heard from Vengeance-sound website that the Pro-53 is an effecient program that delivers a good bang for the cycles it eats.

When I used a demo of Reaktor, that was a black hole for my CPU usage.

Meanwhile, I can stack and stack 3xOSCs with little worries UNLESS I am using waaay to many mixer effects.

For example, I have never pushed instances of the V-Station to the limits, as I usually use the V-Station for bass. I personally have used many instances in a project without too much CPU tax.

Another example: The Vanguard is a hit and miss with me... I use only one instance and it doesn't bother me too much unless I'm really beefing up the unison and stacking (VCS) features.

Finally, my Linplug's Octopus synth, while not as terrible as that Reaktor demo, can really eat up my CPU depending on the amount of oscillators and processes the sound requires. I have never used more than one instance on a project -- sadly.

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Ry Thomas
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Oh how i love hardware

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B_man
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Registered: Dec 2006
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quote:
Originally posted by Ry Thomas
Oh how i love hardware

Yes, yes... why else would I have a JP-8080 to my left?

A computer is hardware too...

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MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.

For Reaktor, it depends on which module you're using. Some of them (like Carbon2) will eat CPU cycles like crazy, while others won't.

I always found that z3ta+ was hard on my processor.

impOSCar is very processor-friendly, and so is Pro-53.

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Ry Thomas
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Korg Legacy is probably the hungriest synth i own.

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Mar-12-2008 18:46 United Kingdom

sterilis
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Belfast/Ibiza/Manchester

when i create my plucks in vanguard its a hogger other times its fine.

synth1 uses next to nothing.

v-station is middle ground depending on what im creating it goes either way.

jp 8000 next to nothing! the joys of hardware

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Eric J
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Massive can be quite the CPU hog, but it sounds fantastic, so I don't really care too much about the CPU usage. I can always bounce if I start consuming too many resources. I've found that its easier to implement the "less is more" philosophy when you have fewer parts that sound fantastic.

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celestial thug
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Copenhagen

depends on what you want to do really. Atm i have a fetish for "Hahaha cs33", and its free as in gratis, zero, no money. synapse "Scorpion" is absolutely fab aswell, and its dirt cheap.
none of them uses any resources nomatter what you do to them. Superwave is altso a nice jd800 clone, and even though it doesnt completely sound the part, it does have a great sound and is not very taxing on the cpu. Adventus is nice for leads

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kevin shawn
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Vegas

Z3ta+ absolutely kills my computer but it sounds so good and Arturia's minimoog freezes up my system from time to time.

Upgrading my computer soon after vacation and what not, it's about 5 years old, less than a gig of ram blah blah blah.

Just to load cubase it takes about 6-10 minutes.

If I'm playing TF2, it takes about 10-13 minutes to boot up.

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B_man
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Registered: Dec 2006
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So far, the order is (from what I gather):

FEATHERWEIGHT:
hardware

THE LIGHTWEIGHTS:
Imposcar
Pro-53
Synth1
3xOSC (don't flame me)
Scorpion

THE MIDDLEWEIGHTS:
V-Station
SuperwaveP8 (I think the supersaw is more metallic in comparison to the 8080)
Sometimes the Reaktor
Sometimes the Vanguard

THE HEAVYWEIGHTS:
Sometimes the Octopus
Z3ta
Arturia's Minimoog
Massive

THE BLACK HOLES:
Reaktor (Carbon)
Korg Legacy Collection

Anyone care to update?

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celestial thug
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Copenhagen

yeah a belive adventus should be placed in the midrange.
http://www.softplug.com/

Mar-13-2008 05:20 Denmark

kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

You should probably add absynth to the middle range and FM8 to the lightweight range. Massive isn't always a cpu hog either, its so fat that you can get away with very little unison and oscillators, so its usage for me rarely goes over 10%.

Reaktor has everything to do with the programming of the specific ensemble, some are huge some are lightweight, if its really well programmed then even huge synths can be quite lightweight.

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