I did notice however that Cubase 8.5 seems to do a little better with overall CPU load than Neundo 7 for the same project. Cubase forum seems to indicate otherwise, but has’t been my experience. Can’t say I found any appreciable performance differences (at least, as identified by the Steinberg performance meters or the Apple Activity Monitor). PT 12.4 in particular, I can’t believe the performance improvement there for my own upgrade from 6 to 12 core- the CPUs go on almost forever, plus the performance metering & cache settings give immediate feedback on how I might instantiate or re-jig various track loads.įWW, did some tests with a VI-only project: with and without auxs and groups. Be good at least to have far more professional feedback and diagnostics there on the DAW side - but then, perhaps the glaring absence of this (and the ASIO guard spin) indicates the absence of ‘proper’ multithreaded optimisation at this point in time? Would seem that this varies enormously across the sector, from platform to platform, but my bottom line observation would be: both Pro Tools and Logic use multi-core processors very well indeed.

In the Forum requests area I asked for more about that in terms of the performance meters for CPU usage at least - multiprocessor indicators etc & where we also know that VIs may be optimised in various ways (eg, some prefer to run as multiple instances vs. Still, the excellent suite of render in place etc tends to offset that somewhat. I suspect that Nuendo and Cubase are not as well multi-threaded (or hyper-threaded?) as they might be, perhaps a substantial rev for the future? in parallel, some of that may lay in the way that VIs /plugins are coded & I have compared the above between VST3 instruments and their AAX counterparts in ‘identical’ Nuendo and Pro Tools projects. Ditto Final Cut Pro rendering and Logic X plugin instances etc. Conversely, the MP upgrade made a huge difference to Pro Tools 12 HD & especially in terms of VIs. The load seems about the same as before on a six core MP (but the on-board ‘performance meter’ is pretty wimpy /uninformative about all that unlike some other DAWs - its an ASIO meter, not a CPU meter). 1024 buffer for UA Apollo & cards, with ASIO guard at ‘high’ for Nuendo 7 (doesn’t need high for Cubase 8.5). I’m finding similar on a MP 5,1 /3.33Ghz /12 core /48GB /SSDs.

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