[fruityloops] Re: Ideal Fruity PC configuration (specs)
- From: "TJ Cinnamon" <tjcinnamon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:45:42 +0000
>iv) in FLStudio you can bounce synth parts to disc, freeing up CPU
>(although obviously you start using hard disk bandwidth instead).
How do you do that? Do you use an audio track? I'm just getting used to
using Studio.
Thanks Joe
>From: Andrew Ebling <andyebling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: Fruityloops Mailing List <fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [fruityloops] Re: Ideal Fruity PC configuration (specs)
>Date: 22 Apr 2003 08:53:24 +0100
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 23:16, Alasdair Dunlop wrote:
>
> > I don't know about dual processors being optimized, I run a P3 866 with
> > 512Mb of SDRAM and it works fine with Fruity 3.56 and runs OK with FL
> > Studio. FL Studio is a bit more processor intensive so I can't run quite
> > as many VSTi's or FX but it still runs OK.=20
>
>As you can see, its quite possible to use fruityloops/FLStudio on quite
>a modest machine and there are a number of tricks you can use to reduce
>the CPU usage:
>
>i) share resource intensive FX (e.g. reverb) between channels by placing
>them in Send channels. If you put a reverb in every FX channel, even
>the most expensive system will struggle.
>
>ii) some reverb plugins are more CPU intensive than others. Most of the
>time you can get away with the less resource intensive ones, except in
>some situations where it really is important to have the best sounding
>reverb.
>
>iii) use the least resource intensive softsynth you need to make a
>particular sound. If you can make the sound in 3xOSC, no point in using
>Absynth!! The skill is to know what synth is good for what sounds ;-).
>
>iv) in FLStudio you can bounce synth parts to disc, freeing up CPU
>(although obviously you start using hard disk bandwidth instead).
>
>Basically, I'm saying you should check that you can't do what you need
>to do by improving your technique rather than throwing money at the
>problem and buying the fastest system out there. If you are going to be
>careless in the way you use plugins, even the fastest system out there
>today will struggle.
>
>With regard to multiprocessors, fruity is multithreaded which means if
>you have XP Pro, it will run across multiple processors. However, two
>processors of a given speed won't be twice as fast as one - i.e. you
>won't get a 100% speed increase by using two processors, probably more
>like 30-50% if you are lucky. Also bear in mind that most windows
>software is not developed and tested on multi-cpu systems, so you are
>more likely to run into undiscovered bugs (known as "race conditions")
>which are particularly an issue on multi-cpu systems.
>
>Andy
>
>
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