Missed the deadline for this reply, but I love Cherry Audio’s plugins in general. I have switched over to them entirely from Arturia V Collection, mainly due to lower CPU usage and consistency of UI among their plugins and a real solid, usable preset collection.
That particular bundle is a good deal, but for me my favorite Cherry Audio plugins are
Dreamsynth - Great hybrid synth ala Prophet VS. Looks complicated, but the layout makes sense
Memorymode - Great polyphonic Moog synth
Mercury-8 - Their new Jupiter 8 clone. Although they always add some new and useful functionality
Elka-X - Synthex emulation, gives a very good Prophet like sound
ODC 2800 - Arp 2800 for all your science fiction noises. Also a great lead synth when you get to learn more about it.
Decided not to buy this time. We’ll see if the same offer comes back next year
How are Cherry Audio memory wise? I’m in the process of installing GP 5 on to Lenovo Yoga’s that i got very cheap. Good i7 processors, but found out that these models came with 8 Gb soldered RAM
It’s one of the reasons I switched from Arturia. Much more efficient. Since they use modeling and not sampling, the main concern is CPU usage and they are very light on CPU.
8GB in general can be tough to work on, especially with Windows. If you are not using a lot of sample based plugins you might be ok with 8 but will have to monitor your RAM usage and select your plugins with that in mind
I know, but I started out with an i5 with 4 Gb and used that for a long time without problems. Upgraded it to 12 Gb and has been able to run both Arturia and other heavy stuff.
At the moment I’m employing all the recommended optimization tips and hoping things will work out well when I’m done and start testing
Yes Kind of impressed myself, even as an IT guy that is used to some optimization
Used the PC, with 12 Gb, as late as Saturday Dec. 6th, without problems. I think it’s now more than 10 years old, and in daily use also for office tasks in my one man business. Of course I’ve upgraded it with a SSD disk during those years.
Until about 2013 my main business was IT support for businesses.
From then on I changed to the private market, visiting people in their homes, like a good old doctor, helping them with virus problems, network problems, software problems and slow PCs. I also do hardware upgrades.
Because of these years in the private market, I’ve worked up an extensive experience making PCs my customers thought they would have to change out, running almost like new ones.
I also use old customer PCs in my business. In fact; I think I haven’t bought a brand new PC since 2007.
So, I’ve used many of the tricks yiu use in your guide, but I found there’s still things to learn there for me, that I also can use in my IT business. Thank you for that!
Today I’ve used most of the day going through a bunch of old PCs that I’ve brought back from customers that bought new ones. My intention have been to move some of them to the electronic waste delivery before Christmas eve Now I think I might keep some of them from the 2000-2010 period to see how far back I can go installing GP
