Reply To: disastrous CPU performance

@michi_mak wrote:

supposed other hosts don’t suffer from freezing using the same midi file played through the same vsti with the same preset using the same optimized daw and the same buffer settings now what could i improve in my computer set up ???

As long as your system don´t have any problems with many backround tasks (Antivirus software …) or IRQ conflicts, there is really nothing you can really change…many tests have shown, that nearly all tweaking tips for windows systems are quite useless and don´t gain any additional performance

It is 99% how a host handles the different tasks…afaik it´s mostly a matter of how VST/i´s are hosted and how efficient the audio engine works especially on multicore systems…
This is where Reaper really excels it is completely unreached by any other host and this is as well where Podium seems to have some problems… sad but true

Of course there are many differences too, how good single plugins perform… the last days I did a little test of the performance of EQ´s
between Fabfilter Pro Q, Meldaproduction MEqualizer and DMG Audio Equick…

I played an audiofile and adjusted all the EQ´s to the same settings…
The host for the tests was MuTools Mulab, because it runs only on a single core and has a quite good average measurement included…

The result:
Audiofile only: 1% CPU
with EQuick: 1,8% CPU
MEqualizer: 1,3% and
Fabfilter Pro Q: 2,4% CPU…

It is all not much, but it sums up… how many EQ´s do you use normally in a project… for me, there are about 20 EQ´s with ease, which means for me, using Pro Q instead of MEqualizer ends up in a CPU load of 24% instead of 6% with the same settings… thats 4 times more only for the EQ´s…