[blog] Clever ways to optimize your plugin usage

[npudar]

A useful post:

@mikkopat

Next thing to look at: optimizing the plugins. Reducing polyphony, dropping unnecessary built-in effects and adjusting sample rate and buffer size will all have effect on the CPU hit of each individual plugin. Since you’re playing in a live band setting, you can propably reduce the polyphony of V Piano quite drastically and still sound great. Try out different settings and listen critically. You might get away with much less detailed piano and rhodes sounds, they may even sound BETTER in the context than the hyper-realistic concert grand with all the symphatetic resonance magic filling the frequencies.
Same applies to synths: see how dense chords you’re actually playing with the JUP8 and OBX and choose the maximum polyphony accordingly.

Link: Plugin recommendation for a catch-all keyboard setup - #6 by mikkopat