mike_mccue
It seems like "optimization" should be a selling point, perhaps to justify a premium price, and not-yet-optimized might be considered not quite as good.
 
It would be nice to have a way to learn what is and isn't.
 
I have all the FF stuff. I think of it as ok, and I'll be buying the Pro-Q2 *just because*.
 
I hope they do some work on the sound and the curves of their Pro-C next. If they optimize it too then I'm gonna be giddy.

 
The level of optimization can be inferred by seeing how much CPU is used by the plugin.  The fact that Pro-Q 2 uses very little CPU compared to similar products is certainly a selling point, at least for me.  There are many plugins that I'd use more often if only they were more efficient. 
 
I think it's a safe bet that Pro-C 2 will also get the full FF optimization treatment.  They've probably learned a lot from their efforts on Pro-Q.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 
 
 
 

Infer is probably a good choice of words. It doesn't seem to me as if CPU meters actually imply anything so we are pretty much left to infer.
 
:-)
 
 

As the teraflops increase, this becomes less of an issue. Moore's Law is on display in our techno oriented hobby/occupation on a yearly basis. And as such, "optimization" becomes less and less of an issue. If your CPU goes from 1% to 2%, did a tree really fall in the forest? I don't think it did. Look back a few years at having to type in "win" at the C: prompt? It's just getting faster and faster. And therefore, IMO, "optimization" is a footnote. It's like driving down the autobahn in the right lane with your blinker stuck on? People are going to come flying past you in the left lane @ 200+ mph...
 
Teraflops baby? Imagine your DAW only 100, or 1000 times faster? And with corresponding increases in memory and disk capacity and access speeds? Everything solid state, no moving parts? Everything in a RAID5 array, or whatever is next. Everything in the cloud, including VSTs, and your project "drive?" and your library "drive?" And your C: "drive?" Will optimization matter then? When you have a 10gigabit link to your home? I don't think it will.

I wish Moore's law applied to sample buffer sizing on audio streaming drivers.

Well it comes my friend, and it comes quicker than you think. When I was a teenager, home PCs were in their infancy? I remember loading "wordstar" and "calcstar" on my mothers "5,000 dollar PC" on 5.25 floppy disks, with her dot matrix printer? And it's increasing exponentially. I work for a service provider, and we struggle to keep up with demand. It gets hotter and faster every year. Capacity grows, speed increases, or more accurately, "speeds increase" content grows. It is a good thing for what we do, because again as I said? "Teraflops..." In a few more years, we will laugh at the us of today, worrying about CPU cycles. You'll put on your virtual reality glasses and sit down at your DAW which will be on your phone? And you'll manipulate things by moving your hands and or your eyes. We are in the midst of a revolution... It will be like the lawnmower man. Be thankful that you are here and part of it, in 10 years, you won't recognize it... Band in a box? "Band on your phone..." And a song in a few minutes (original) with you singing it? Or someone on the other side of the world. It's all changing "right now" before our eyes. 
 
I believe you'll choose to use virtual instruments "virtually?" You will choose to use effects "virtually" as you need them? They will be licensed on a per-use-basis. Rather than owning the software? You will choose to use it, per project. Then you will distribute that project and people will pay a small fee to enjoy it (a one time fee) and it will all be encrypted in such a way that it discourages sharing as is done today.
 
The future is content? And what I am describing is not new, but it's my take on what is coming. From someone who does "what we do?" And is in the IT field. I may be wrong? But this is what I see based on where I've been, where I am, and where I see us going.  (there will still be pirates matie...)
 
Don't look at where we are? Look at where we're going to be. (I'll accept being the author of that quote...) copyright, trademark 9/7/2014

Look at where we're going to be...

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"I work for a service provider, and we struggle to keep up with demand."
You said it, not me.
Therein lies the Achilles heel in what you predict.
Its all about infrastructure; and we don't have enough.
Are we living in a "techno bubble" that will soon burst, much like real estate bubble?
Just sayin'...
Tom

mike_mccue
It seems like "optimization" should be a selling point, perhaps to justify a premium price...

That probably won't happen, because buyers choose products on gut-level criteria. A thousand optimizations won't ever be as effective as one Dan Worrall video.
 

Don't get me started. That v2 video seemed like a flashback to 3rd grade show-n-tell, but I think I get your point.