This may help http://www.cakewalk.com/D...rmance.21.html#1150952

Here's a link to help disable core parking:
 
https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/

Disable EIST (enhanced Intel speed step) any other "power" saving stuff you may have enabled. The absolutely best advice for info on core parking is google it. Toms Hardware will have a lot of good info. Google it and start saving stuff in a favorites menu. You will want to have it in the future. Get a small notebook and write down all changes you make from what, to what, and date them. Don't do anything without writing it down, then you can always undo it. The people on this Forum will be able and willing  to help a lot. Save the posts you want in your folder. Fixing it shouldn't be your only goal here. Getting familiar with it will help you so much in the future. Do some searches in the Forums too.
 
Added: Put all relevant specs on your rig, OS, audio card, amount of memory and so on, in your Forum user signature. That can be the difference between getting a bunch of answers right away and none at all.

emwhy, are you using the Process Lasso utility? I would love some feedback on it if you are. Thanks

gunboatdiplomacy

pwalpwal
this is probably not completely accurate, but i believe certain things always go through a single core, including the gui and the master buss, so one core is always busier than the others... after that the core distribution is roughly per-track (this is how live does it)... so you might try sub-bussing, or moving plugs from the master, see if that helps?

well, i have no plugs on the master. i was working last night on a song with one instance of kontakt, one instance of Ultra Analog and about 24 tracks of audio (with 6 busses) with varying amounts of Pro Channel use (ReMatrix/Tape/EQ/Comp/) and a couple instances of Wave's REDD Channel Strip. i'm getting better performance with regards to dropouts after updating my bios and turning off the energy savings setting there. but it still has the 80 to 20 split.
 
i also see the same core performance split in Reason, so it's not just Sonar. I wonder about AMD's version of Intel's Core Parking.
[heads off to google]

it's to do with each audio stream having to be processed within a single thread (or similar, this is obviously over simplified)
i'm including prochannel as a plugin
it may be worth messing with kontakt's own multi-core settings, some report better performance with it off, others the opposite
also, try disabling all fx, just to see what the difference is? if it's a noticeable difference you could then try disabling each in turn, to identify the culprit(s)
it would be nice if sonar had a performance meter similar to st**** o** which shows cpu usage per-plugin
is core parking not managed by windows? (can't remember for sure but i think i "disabled" it with some registry setting in win7)

BassDaddy I've never used the Process Lasso utility, just the basic one they have there for core parking. I run a pretty lean PC as it is (I built it myself) so I don't need to worry about a lot of junkware in the background.
 
As to Kontakt, which library(s) is the OP using?
 

emwhy
BassDaddy I've never used the Process Lasso utility, just the basic one they have there for core parking. I run a pretty lean PC as it is (I built it myself) so I don't need to worry about a lot of junkware in the background.
 
As to Kontakt, which library(s) is the OP using?
 

OP isn't using Kontakt, but i'm using Abbey Roads Vintage Drummer and Scarbee Rickenbacker

Revisit this thread:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2409875
 
dan

Oops my bad gunboatdiplomacy.....in the Abbey Road kit, switch your mixer setting to "init" and watch how much the first core comes back to earth! It's the mixer in that particular Kontakt library that causes me grief. I've stopped using that part of it and just process the Abbey Road stuff through SONAR's Pro Channel.
 

metz
Core parking? How do I do that?
 
Could be some synth or plugin I guess. I'll try freezing one at a time. Thanks for the tip. I use a lot of Arturia synths and well.... they've had problems before.
 
Thanks again!
 
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There are many simple programs that will disable or enable core parking. Just google  'Disable core parking utility'.