More processing power when using Bit Bridge?
Dear Sonar family,
First of, I love my Sonar Professional and working with it.
My system is
Windows 10 64 Bit Workstation Notebook
All Audio settings optimized (Energy Management etc)
Intel i7 4800 MQ 2,7 Ghz (4 Physical Cores, 4 virtual Cores)
16 GB Ram
RME Babyface in below case at 2048 Buffer size (!)
I'm a big fan of Acustica Audio Acqua Plugins. For those that don't know: They eat CPU for breakfast.
I loaded up my usual template and when and inserted 6 Acqua Plugins in total on my Subgroups and Master Busses with the 64 Bit VST version. Immediately when I hit play the Playback Engine drops out, and the far left CPU Meter of my 8 Cores jumps to the Red while the rest stays relatively low. But Windows Task Manager says my CPU load is only about 34%.
Now here is the curious thing: When I install these plugins in their 32 bit version and "offload" the processin, using Sonar's built in Bit Bridge my Sonar CPU meters stay in the yellow and everything is fine.
Also when I set up a session in Reaper with the exact same plugins and the exact same routing, using the Acqua plugins in 64 Bit everything is fine.
My question would be: Has Sonar trouble offloading plugin processing to Multiple Cores? Can Sonar split one VST's processing on a multi Core CPU? Does Sonar have problems in working with Virtual Cores?
If everything is supposed to be fine: Why is the Bit Bridge workaround working so fine then?
Sorry if this topic got raised before but I just couldn't find anything remotely close to my issue
post edited by Mannymac - 2015/12/31 13:03:55