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12-25-2011, 06:47 AM
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How to make Reaper distribute VSTi load across cores?
I'm seeing in Reaper 4.14 x64 that with three instances of the U-He Diva VSTi, only one of 8 cores gets utilized, all the way to 100% actually. Must I change some Reaper setting to make it distribute the processing?
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12-25-2011, 07:14 AM
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Do you have the instances on different tracks each?
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12-25-2011, 07:52 AM
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Diva doesn't have full multicore support yet, as I gathered.
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12-25-2011, 07:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Evan
Do you have the instances on different tracks each?
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Yes, one track per instance. I think I've seen this behaviour with a multitude of different VSTis/VSTs btw in a different project, but it didn't occur to me it might be due to lack of multi-processing. I can do some more testing, but I don't think this particular to Diva anyway.
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12-25-2011, 07:58 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilDragon
Diva doesn't have full multicore support yet, as I gathered.
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Doesn't matter. It's Reaper that should distribute the instances across cores, no? I've tested the same setup in Studio One, which distributes across cores just fine. Actually, from the resource monitor, it looks like S1 utilized at least 7 cores (still just three instances of Diva)!
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12-25-2011, 08:50 AM
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If you have the vstis on record armed tracks, be sure to go to prefs/buffering and enable 'live fx multiprocessing.'
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12-25-2011, 10:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
If you have the vstis on record armed tracks, be sure to go to prefs/buffering and enable 'live fx multiprocessing.'
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You hit the nail right on the head, thanks!! Are there any real drawbacks to enabling this option, though? After all, Studio One always multi-processes without making any fuss about it. I must say that combined with Reaper's default of arming instrument tracks, this makes for a bit of a usability nightmare (compared to S1, which just works).
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12-25-2011, 09:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aknuds1
You hit the nail right on the head, thanks!! Are there any real drawbacks to enabling this option, though? After all, Studio One always multi-processes without making any fuss about it. I must say that combined with Reaper's default of arming instrument tracks, this makes for a bit of a usability nightmare (compared to S1, which just works).
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Nah, it should be safe to enable for most users... it should probably be defaulted to on at this point but for various legacy reasons it is not...
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12-25-2011, 10:13 PM
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That's very interesting, Justin. Thanks for the info. By the way, it says "but isn't ideal for low latency performance", does this mean it affects all low latency duties? I mean, I mix at 512 samples and record at 128 samples, using a SR of 96kHz. Will this affect my performance if I just set it and forget about it? I'd also like to take advantage of all my PC power with demanding VSTi's.
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12-26-2011, 03:01 AM
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Great questions
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12-26-2011, 04:07 AM
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Trying it to see what difference it makes, if any, to my average VSTi-heavy project...
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12-26-2011, 04:29 AM
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Let me add one more question to this: what is the current situation on hyper-threading?
I have a 2nd gen Core i3, 2 cores with 2 extra virtual cores. On that Reaper settings page, I have auto-detect activated, and it finds 4 cores. Is it ok to just leave it be, or force it to 2 cores manually?
Also curious about more recent CPUs like the intel sandy bridge.
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12-26-2011, 04:55 AM
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Use all 4, why not.
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