If the CPU is overheating, it will thermothrottle, and since DAWs already hate SpeedStep (turbo clocks), you can imagine what this does - apart from just slowing down the CPU overall, obviously. I’m not quite sure what the symptoms you’re describing add up to, I’d suggest checking CPU core temperatures, and CPU core clocks. Spitfire’s Kontakt libraries are also notorious for creating massive CPU load spikes when triggering notes, but other than that, they just leisurely stream samples, like any other library - though quite a few of them per note, especially if you use multiple microphones. (Web browsers in particular! Those are the worst hogs known to mankind…)Īctual synths (like Serum) can consume substantial amounts of CPU time, and they’re generally single threaded, rendering number of CPUs/cores is irrelevant, except when running multiple instances of the synth.
RAM should not really be an issue, unless we’re dealing with orchestral sample libraries - though 8 GB is really the pain threshold for basically using a computer at all these days, so you’ll have to close other applications. TL DR: Check CPU temperatures and disk health! I’m getting the impression that the machine is going unstable. My buffer size is already at the maximum, I try to save as much processing power as I can, but at some times it becomes impossible to work when it is crashing literally every time I press play.Īny ideas to improve this at all? What’s your tips? I was thinking to start switching my hard drive for ssd, do you think it would be better? My template is simple, just a standard routing from stacks to effects chain and print, some fx plugins already loaded but then I add my instruments as I go into a project. I’m running all my samples and instruments through a Seagate hard drive, and I have another one where I store all my projects and files. I have some fx plugins from waves, which I believe can be CPU heavy. I’m mostly using as vsts Massive X, Serum, BBCSO, and some Spitfire and other plugins less frequently. I’m working on a 2016 Macbook Pro, 8gb RAM.
I’m not sure how I can fix this without upgrading my machine, which I cannot do at the moment, so I thought I’d ask this in our great community. I’ve been struggling lately on my machine to get uninterrupted work without having CPU overload every time I want to record a part which has already more than 5 tracks playing on.
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