Ok, maybe let’s backup (I really should have put each of these issues in a separate post, sorry!)
My main template with all of my routing and the four plugins that I will leave on always is at about 46% in GP, 3% overall. If I turn off those four plugins, it is at 13%. Fine, no worries. But I have 97% of my actual CPU not being used that would be handy.
According to this thread: Question about CPU usage
It is because “Gig Performer’s CPU meter is measuring audio processing cycles only, not the overall CPU usage.”
Ok. It is suggested that to alleviate this problem, to use more instances.
Ok. I separate my template into two instances and that does help. I can now pretty much turn off and on every plugin that I want to use, at least to get going.
But now I have a midi controller problem, because of Windows limiting one controller to one software. How do you folks who use more than one GP instance solve this problem?