Reducing cpu usage in song mode?

[fea]

all tips are welcome. cant realy listen what im doing..
have tried audio output latencies and multi processor engine..

[HYPNAGOGIA]

If you're at the point where the CPU usage is so high that even playback in Song mode isn't nice to listen to, without having a deeper look into it, the only advice I have is to start optimizing your project. Lower synths polyphony, number of effects. If possible, even change synths and effects for others with same or even similar sounds but take up less resources to run the project.

For anything more than that, I guess system specs (CPU/RAM/soundcard/latency) would be first steps, number of synths/effects... or anything else that might help.

[kmatm]

You can trying lowering polyphony in samplers if you're using a lot of them.

And the obvious one is to export patterns you're happy with to .wav, then remove the synths.

[balistic]

Try this before you start gutting your project.

Go to Windows control panel > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings > Change Advanced Power Settings

From there, under the "processor power management" setting, change your minimum processor state to 100% (default is normally around 5%).

This will prevent your processor from slowing down and speeding up based on CPU load. I have seen this help *immensely* with poor song playback in Orion. The reason it helps is that the speed throttle on the CPU simply does not react quickly enough to handle latency sensitive tasks like real-time audio.

If you're on a laptop, it will increase the amount of power you're using and your battery will be empty faster, so it's usually best to make a new power plan called something like "Orion Mode" and switch to it only when you need the extra CPU speed.

[fea]

ty for tips. will try them.
umm, how to lower polyphony in samplers?

[fea]

Try this before you start gutting your project.

Go to Windows control panel > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings > Change Advanced Power Settings

From there, under the "processor power management" setting, change your minimum processor state to 100% (default is normally around 5%).

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This helped little but not enough...

Did also lower polyphony in all synths but its still taking almost 100% cpu usage

and the obvious one was to export synthlines to wav...

[Christophe]

i bet your cpu issue is not with sampler
what synth are you using ?
try to reduce the release env amp on your cpu eating synth

[fea]

i bet your cpu issue is not with sampler
what synth are you using ?
try to reduce the release env amp on your cpu eating synth

this project has Sylenth1:s, z3ta+2:s, renegades, Ultran, loads of vst effects. almost all releases are at 0.

needed to export 1 Sylenth1 to wav and cpu usage dropped to 89% and now it plays nicely.
Just hate to loose those tweaking possibilities..

[Christophe]

in song mode, you can also freeze your track with orion 8.6