11.

I admit I read the thread in the OP and just scratched my head wondering "what's the point of this test?" Perhaps I have done too many Design of Experiments in my time to consider what he was doing as anything close to a "benchmark" that would yield meaningful data.

There's a reaper thread in the sonar forum!!! THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG!!! Is it my browser settings??? Has my machine been hijacked? I'm dumbfounded!!!!  

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer...

Don't fear the reaper.

Anderton
Yes, it's nice Sonar came out "on top"...but on top of what? A flawed test that has little, if anything, to do with the intended function of either piece of software?

 
Flawed in what way, may I ask?
 
(btw, in a later test run reported in that thread Sonar didn't come out "on top" anymore)  

bitflipper
I've always been a little leery of benchmarks that load up one plugin over and over until dropouts occur. It seems like a clunky and imprecise method that might not even produce repeatable results, much less translate into real-world benefits.

 
Hmm, seems like it actually does translate into real-world benefits:
 

Noel Borthwick
Use cases
With projects containing many plug-ins in effects bins the penalty of interleave conversions on buffers can add up. For example in the DawBench project there are many plug-ins in each effects bin. While running such projects at low latency minimizing interleave conversions can be beneficial. For example, this optimization alone buys us about 3-4% in CPU consumption back with an effect laden project like DawBench. To a normal end user this means that more complex projects with lots of VST plug-ins in bins will run more efficiently at low latency.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/SONAR-85-The-Fine-Print-m1841847.aspx
 

 
WARNING Chrome reports MALWARE in the link below
 

Goddard

bitflipper
I've always been a little leery of benchmarks that load up one plugin over and over until dropouts occur. It seems like a clunky and imprecise method that might not even produce repeatable results, much less translate into real-world benefits.

 
Hmm, seems like it actually does translate into real-world benefits:
 

Noel Borthwick
Use cases
With projects containing many plug-ins in effects bins the penalty of interleave conversions on buffers can add up. For example in the DawBench project there are many plug-ins in each effects bin. While running such projects at low latency minimizing interleave conversions can be beneficial. For example, this optimization alone buys us about 3-4% in CPU consumption back with an effect laden project like DawBench. To a normal end user this means that more complex projects with lots of VST plug-ins in bins will run more efficiently at low latency.

forum.cakewalk.com/SONAR-85-The-Fine-Print-m1841847.aspx
 

Wookiee
 
WARNING Chrome reports MALWARE in the link below
 

Goddard

bitflipper
I've always been a little leery of benchmarks that load up one plugin over and over until dropouts occur. It seems like a clunky and imprecise method that might not even produce repeatable results, much less translate into real-world benefits.

 
Hmm, seems like it actually does translate into real-world benefits:
 

Noel Borthwick
Use cases
With projects containing many plug-ins in effects bins the penalty of interleave conversions on buffers can add up. For example in the DawBench project there are many plug-ins in each effects bin. While running such projects at low latency minimizing interleave conversions can be beneficial. For example, this optimization alone buys us about 3-4% in CPU consumption back with an effect laden project like DawBench. To a normal end user this means that more complex projects with lots of VST plug-ins in bins will run more efficiently at low latency.

forum.cakewalk.com/SONAR-85-The-Fine-Print-m1841847.aspx
 

Thanks for reporting Wookiee. I pulled the image that was being referenced from a meme generator site that apparently is a known Malware distributor according to Google. The embedded image was hosted on their server so I can't imagine any danger here, but nevertheless it was getting in the way.

Get that reaper bs out of here. This is a SONAR forum. I don't want any software from a company named "Cockos" on my computer.