Just to add to this CPU thread here are some tests that I did with different hosts on my machine (AMD AthlonXP3000+, so quite old, 1,5GB Ram, Asio 128/44100, no Antivirus or Zone alarm running as my music machine isn’t connected to the internet). Well specs are not important here because I was just after the behaviour with many audio files.
I tested with 12 wav files I had downloaded from KVR, a band wanted people to make something with their wav-files 🙂
Playing those 12 wavs without additional FX gave me in
– Reaper 2-14% CPU usage in my windows task manager (system ressurces)
– Podium 1-15%
– *** (my older host) 10-28% 🙁 .
This isn’t the best science you ever read, but it’s nice to know that Podium behaves just as well as Reaper does, and Reaper-fans quite rightly state that this is a good selling-argument pro Reaper. Pro Podium too here :D. I won’t name the last one as the developer is in some troubles right now after being hyped for years very much, and people who use it will know already that using audio-files without any FX seems to be a problem for that host.
So that’s really nice to know!
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