One instance of GigPerformer maxing out the CP

Gig Performer on Windows
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AMD Threadripper 12 core win 10x64
What is the solution to One instance of GigPerformer(GP) maxing out the CPU?

In this example,One GP instance and 3 VST Plugins are pushing CPU to over 50%.

Is the idea to have multiple Instances of GP open and linked, like this?
e.g.
GP-1 effects
Gp-2 effects
GP-3 effects + Controllers

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Do you have issues with that CPU usage?
Audio crackles etc?

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Well, one idea is to not use plugins in a live situation that use up an absurd amount of CPU cycles :slight_smile: I routinely have 10-30 plugins in a rackspace - if you are having problems with just three plugins, then maybe you have to find different plugins.

Plugins designed for DAWs and recording aren’t always going to be suitable for real-time.

That said, 50% is hardly maxing out the CPU — are you getting noise?

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Maybe tell us a bit more about your system.

I was having crackling issues with two different (pretty beefy) Lenovo Thinkpad P.16 (gen 2) laptops.

In both cases, I had to make some adjustments (with the help of Frank1119).

In one case I used Frank’s little bit of code to keep my system in Ultimate Power Mode.

In the other case, I had to install and use Throttlestop.

In both cases, my crackling problem has been fixed (and in both cases, I would not have been able to figure out the issue without this forum, in general, and Frank1119, in particular).

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Perhaps I was a bit hyperbolic with the 3 vst comment. Although at the time MIDI GUITAR 3 was causing huge CPU into th 70% and there causing audio to crack, it is better now. GuitarRig 6 also pushes CPU, so the two of them in a rack is already CPU heavy.

I was really wanting to better understand when / why to have multiple GP5 instances open on a multicore computer, what is the use case for such a setup?

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With separate instances you can spread audio processing over different cores and you can use different audio interfaces.

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Fascinating, I think the “processing over different cores” is what I was trying to do. Because The one instance of GP5 was already CPU heavy, I was wanting to continue adding effects.