I wasn’t sure if I should post this to the Plugins instead but thought it was or could be a general one too. I noticed that when I add a certain amount of wiring with additional plugins, the CPU% goes up quite a lot, say from about 5% to 50%. Is this normal? I’d like to ask a few questions on this. …

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NOTE: In GP4 I am only using the Mesa Boogie Plugin using 36% which varies upto 48% very strange. [2023-06-09_22-49-20]

That number is not too important. In reality you only care about the audio thread whose CPU utilization is displayed on the top right of the main window. The activity monitor essentially shows all activity including all threads created by your plugins.

[image] baz: GP4 I am only using the Mesa Boogie Plugin using 36% Yes but you haven’t addressed the question as to whether you are running in mixed mode, or all native or all Rosetta.

Yes it’s native showing Apple Silicon in one of the screen shots above. I also chose the AU version of the plugin. I have just noticed that after removing the Black Hole aggregate on my audio interface back to just using the Focus 2i2 it has gone right down to 12 [2023-06-09_23-02-36] [2023-06-0…

[image] baz: I have just noticed that after removing the Black Hole aggregate on my audio interface back to just using the Focus 2i2 it has gone right down to 12 An interesting discovery.

[image] baz: I also chose the AU version of the plugin. What happens if you use the VST version? Also, I’m still wondering if you are, perhaps inadvertently, still mixing native and Rosetta? I use blackhole all the time and I’ve never seen it have a significant impact

VST3, VST and AU are all the same at 12%.

Ok….I was being slightly devious….by running the VST version, I know the plugin was Apple Native because Apple only launches Rosetta for AUs that are Intel. Are you sure the Blackhole driver is native?

Good question, I typed in the requirements and it says Apple Silicon and macOS and one download option. All in one I presume. [2023-06-10_01-03-57]

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npudar June 9, 2023, 9:05pm 17

An interesting discovery.

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