Ampsims eating my CPU like crazy

[Tommy Evans]

My guitar chain is DI > TSE808 > Nick Crow 8505 > LeCab2 with Catharsis IRs and my CPU is spiking and making everything glitch out. It's a full mix with 26 tracks and this only happens when I run ampsims. (except POD, which works fine). I've printed all my midi drum tracks to wavs and consolidated things as much as I could without hindering the mix itself. Am I missing something? What's going on here?

Windows 7
Studio One 1.5.0 (32bit)

 

[infectdsniper]

i find with the free stuff i end up with 1 track of guitar taking up ~8% of my amd 3.1 quad core. if your on the mixing stage then raise your buffer rate so your cpu doesnt have to work as hard.

and while tracking use pod on a lower buffer rate

 

[CarlBlomqvist]

Use a higher buffer setting on your soundcard. This will increase the I/O delay, but as long as you're just mixing and not recording, that wont be a problem.
Or; Get a new computer!

EDIT: infectdsniper beat me to it by a second...

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[Tommy Evans]

So I took the buffer rate from "extra slow" to "extra fast" and upon play back it didn't show any improvement. :/

Will try doing a system reboot to see if that helps.

 

[CarlBlomqvist]

What soundcard are you using? Those settings is from some Line 6 thingy if I remember correctly, right?
Try getting Asio4All and use as an ASIO driver instead of Line 6.

 

[Tommy Evans]

Nothing.
Any other ideas?

 

[Tommy Evans]

What soundcard are you using? Those settings is from some Line 6 thingy if I remember correctly, right?
Try getting Asio4All and use as an ASIO driver instead of Line 6.

Didn't see your post. I'll try it out. I got those settings from a YouTube video I liked.

 

[DocSauerkraut]

Are you in the mixing stage? Why don't you bounce your guitar tracks then like you did with the drums?

 

[Tommy Evans]

Thanks everyone for the advice and thanks Carl for helping me pinpoint my issue. I did what you suggested and it worked fine afterward so HELL YEAH

 

[Benalthel]

Another thing you can do is to buss all the guitar tracks together that will have the same tones, and just put the ampsims on the bus instead. Saves you a lot of cpu especially if quad-tracking.

 

[Spectivum]

Nick Crows seem to eat 2-3x more CPU than any other ampsims I tried. Obviously you only notice that kind of jump if your computer is slow enough

 

[Lon]

why dont you just print them when you hit your desired sound? you can always go back if really necessary and it will save you a lot of cpupower...

 

[Kohugaly]

.... have the same problem with ampsims... when I'm working on notebook i ran out of CPU after 4 ampsims running parallel (with 4096 buffer size)... I had to freeze/render tracks to save CPU... there is no another solution to this problem, I think...

 

[stuglue]

Why don't you update your studio one to 1.6.5

 

[Scott Horner]

Yeah, pretty much all the free ones I use use quite a bit of CPU. I just raise the buffer for mixing.

 

[Tommy Evans]

Why don't you update your studio one to 1.6.5

I actually own S1V2 but upon sitting down with it twice, I couldn't figure out how to turn the click on haha. I hit "C" and nothing happened so I closed it and opened up S1.5 and went on with my business. Lame I know.

 

[thefalloftheheretic]

Nick Crowe, for whatever reason, is the neediest amp sim ever. It uses something like 10% of my quadcore i7.

 

[viralz]

How much RAM do you have?

 

[Tommy Evans]

How much RAM do you have?

I have 4G of RAM good sir.

 

[everdrone]

ya I have 296 gb of ram, intel core 2 quad, having the same prob - I can run 5 ampsims, but after that, Ampsims eating my CPU like crazy!

hehe

I appreciate and agree with all the insights above, I run a pod line 6 gx silver

I like this link for configuring daw/asio/pod:

http://www.michalkaszczyszyn.com/en/tutorials/reaper_pod_studio.html

I like the asio4all and just tried it today, now am running 128 buffer size like said in this awesome unemployed d00d's post:

http://line6.com/support/message/185014