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Low CPU AU3 synths or drums

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  • Audio Damage apps are all pretty CPU efficient as far as I can tell from pretty regular use.

  • @craftycurate said:
    Audio Damage apps are all pretty CPU efficient as far as I can tell from pretty regular use.

    Thanks. I'll take a look.

  • Some very efficient ones (many instances possible):
    Bram Bos Phasemaker (the most efficient that I know!)
    KQ Dixie
    AD Phosphor 2
    AD Quanta
    IceGear Laplace
    iSEM
    bs-16i

    AudioLayer is efficient with only one or two instances but even with the simplest programs I have never been able to use more than 5 instances in Cubasis at the highest audio latency and without any insert, send or master FX enabled.

  • edited April 2019

    @rs2000 said:
    Some very efficient ones (many instances possible):
    Bram Bos Phasemaker (the most efficient that I know!)

    I'm a big fan of Phasemaker and have been making patches for it lately, but that's not my experience. While not being heavy on cpu (like, say, Model D), it definitely uses more cpu than the lightest AUs in my experience: KQ Dixie and Icegear Lorentz.

    I'm using an iPad Mini 4, and I check cpu use via single instances in AUM. Maybe that's not the best approach.

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • How is everyone evaluating what is a low CPU app? Guy feel or using some sort of meter?

  • @gusgranite said:
    How is everyone evaluating what is a low CPU app? Guy feel or using some sort of meter?

    Pretty sure we established earlier in this thread that any sort of logic will be refuted as not logical enough or not my logic, so I think guy feel is, instead, the most logically accepted :lol:

  • Guy feel... lol

  • edited April 2019

    @overorange said:

    @rs2000 said:
    Some very efficient ones (many instances possible):
    Bram Bos Phasemaker (the most efficient that I know!)

    I'm a big fan of Phasemaker and have been making patches for it lately, but that's not my experience. While not being heavy on cpu (like, say, Model D), it definitely uses more cpu than the lightest AUs in my experience: KQ Dixie and Icegear Lorentz.

    I'm using an iPad Mini 4, and I check cpu use via single instances in AUM. Maybe that's not the best approach.

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    I've noticed that average CPU usage and possible number of instances are not exactly related. What I've done is play a little repeated test clip of 4- to 5-note chords in Cubasis, load the AU synth to test and duplicate the track until either dropouts or 100% cpu and silence happened. On an iPad 2018, I could load 20 instances of a Phasemaker 6-op fm patch, 17 instances of KQ Dixie, 16 instances of AD Phosphor 2 and 11 instances of Laplace.

    The most resource-hungry with multiple instances were AudioLayer, Zeeon and Synthmaster One. Even Model 15 was slightly better but I guess that depends on the cabling ;)

  • @rs2000 said:
    I've noticed that average CPU usage and possible number of instances are not exactly related. What I've done is play a little repeated test clip of 4- to 5-note chords in Cubasis, load the AU synth to test and duplicate the track until either dropouts or 100% cpu and silence happened.

    This makes a lot of sense to me as being potentially much more accurate than simply looking at the cpu meter in AUM when using one instance of an AU, which has been my approach.

  • @gusgranite said:
    How is everyone evaluating what is a low CPU app? Guy feel or using some sort of meter?

    Using the AUM meter and sometimes this other overall metering app, forget the name but it shows a nice over time graph.

  • @Multicellular said:

    @gusgranite said:
    How is everyone evaluating what is a low CPU app? Guy feel or using some sort of meter?

    Using the AUM meter and sometimes this other overall metering app, forget the name but it shows a nice over time graph.

    That sounds like System Status.

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