If you're using vst instruments that aren't say ROMplers, chances are your cpu/soundcard is holding you back.. and not your ram.. RAM effects sample based recording more.

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Originally posted by Aesthetic RAM effects sample based recording more.

You got that, mac...
I am reminded of that grave reality every time I load Philharmonik Miroslav... I need some cash for a cache...

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its all about sound engineering in that tune.. all melodies and piano roll patterns fit everywhere so well in place, that actually even 3 vst's playing at a time with melodies playing together could slow down your pc drastically..

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I think that this is not so much of VST. Remember that a lot times hardware synths are used... and of course if you try to do all that things in just one shot... well, here it is when you get frustrating because the red led of you processor gets turned on to its maximum because the lots of VST's and effects you're using actually hehe...

Anyway... When I'm working with this kind of sounds that can cause a several CPU usage... the only thing that I do is record a dry sound... for example... a saw lead... then... I just drop it in a Multitracker rewired to my Main DAW... and just add all effects, filters... etc.

But I use this method rarely... because as I said before... just when a sound could crash my performance. But obviously it has disadvantages. =/

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U should use a DAW that utilizes more cpu-cores, on both effects and vst-instruments, like Ableton. In FL for instance u can only run multithreading on the vst-instruments.. when the effects actually require much more resources than the vst-instruments (if u use alot of them, like me.)

Its all about CPU power. Thats what u run out of.

When I start arranging my tracks, I always use Cubase´s freeze function on static tracks like midbasses to save some power...

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Cubase + Intel Dual/Quad core + 2+GB of RAM will provide all your synth needz

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Well I've just gone from a single core 1.8Ghz to an quadcore 2.66. the 1.8Ghz was enough already, so I'll be good for at least some years now hahaha. I could even turn off the other 3 cores and still be off better than I was before

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Originally posted by daeus Cubase + Intel Dual/Quad core + 2+GB of RAM will provide all your synth needz

This will do you justice. I'm using a quad core CPU, Q6600, and 4GB of RAM in XP using the /3GB switch option, and it can handle ridiculously large project files.

I will say that line, "he must have needed a bomb of ram" cracked me up!

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Running 7-8 instances of Albino3 at full capacity on my Core2Duo 2.4Ghz .... that power's gonna last me for more than 6 months

Albino is a CPU hog, (when testing I run 2 oscs with spread, both filters, saturation and 3 stereo processing filters)



Just for kicks I decided to see how many instances of Synth1 I could run:

The Unofficial "How many Synth1 instances can I run?"

Core2Duo 2.4Ghz
2gig DDR2 800mhz
Ableton Live 7 as host
M-Audio Delta 44 audio interface, 48Khz, 384 samples, 7ms latency

Synth1: both oscs. on , osc.1 with unison, filter on, LFO in use, EQ and chorus effect on.

I was playing an 8-note chord with a rather long release, and it retriggered every eight-note, so each instance had to handle up to 16 voices.

Results: I was able to run 44 instances simultaneously before getting buffer-issues

stay off the drugs son

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