Hello, I am looking for some help with CPU issues. My PC is an ASUS Laptop with Intel Core i7-8750 processor, 32 g of ram, 2tb main HD SSD, Secondary HD 4tb SSD. I recently purchased “80s Covers 3-PACK BUNDLE” from Narfsound, if you haven’t checked it out its great, when loading my CPU usage climbs over 80 and higher creating crackling and loss of sound. I have gone thru “The Ultimate Guide to Optimize your Windows PC for the Stage” before I purchased GP and bundle pack. I am not sure what to do to stop this. My Arturia software is all set to buffer size of 128 and sample rate of 44100 Hz. Would really love any advice and help. Thank you in advance.
Some of NARF’s rackspaces are pretty CPU intensive.
If it does not bother you, you might consider raising the buffer to 256.
Here are some other threads to consider (in my own (successful) fight against crackling):
I would try implementing the Ultimate Performance Option first, before resorting to ThrottleStop.
I’m new to Arturia having used only sampled instruments in the past. I too found some of NARF’s songs unusable due to high cpu load. What I have learned is that Arturia’s instruments burn CPU cycles even while doing absolutely nothing. @Narf tended to use MUTE in mixers to kill voices when not in use. I have found that if I bypass the Arturia block when not in use, it significantly reduces CPU load. So, anytime I use an Arturia voice for only a portion of any song, I set things up where it can be bypassed when not in use instead of simply muting its output.
2 Likes
Forgot, something else I had to do on some songs is split the load by using multiple instances of GP. putting half of the instruments in a different instance spread the cpu load where the single instance trying to do everything wasn’t working.
1 Like
Thank you for all your helpful inputs!!!
I’m curious what the base clock speed of your CPU is and what it “steps” to on demand.
Gig Performer is a single core application. It will be interesting to see if mulitiple core management is added to a future release.
I have not used Arturia plugins mainly because I’ve purchased VSTs for classic keyboards from other companies. In general, are Arturia plugins CPU hungry?
Unfortunately we don’t give any promises of future functionality but this is certainly something of which we’re aware.
That said, more and more plugins support multicore, so it’s always worth checking. Also, in the short term, you can leverage Gig Performer’s multiple instance support along with the GP Relayer plugin to spread out processing over multiple cores. Yeah, a little time to configure it but once done, it works very well.
1 Like
So, your’e telling me there’s a chance…
If a plugin supports multiple cores does it still utilize multiple cores if instantiated within Gig Performer?
I’m not telling you anything other than we are aware that people would like this feature.
It should — it will do its own management
Thanks, Great Idea!!!
I don’t know that this is unique to Arturia. I think it is the difference between sampled and computed instruments. Most of the Native Intruments VSTs that I use are sampled. They don’t use much CPU when idle. But they consume memory. Those that generate audio via algorithms don’t typically use a lot of memory. But they consume CPU cycles even when idle.
There is some overlap between my NI and Arturia voice sets. When I find I’m pushing memory limits, I try to replace NI voices with Arturia or other algorithm-based voices. When I see CPU usage is high, I will try to replace Arturia with NI voices. And then there are other CPU solutions like disabling VSTs when not in use and multiple GP instances. And other memory solutions like predictive loading. When you have 60 or so songs in a set list, you might have to get creative about CPU and memory management.
I have 3 Hammond B3 emulations, NI, Arturia, and IK Multimedia. Each has its own unique advantages. I can’t say one is better than the other - other than to say that NI seems to be a better fit for those of us that skipped the synthesizer revolution and Arturia seems a better fit for those that want an interface as similar as possible to the original hardware they are already comfortable with. Each to his own.