For me, the VST Performance Meter has always been pretty useless. It’s supposed to display disk overages vs. ‘performance’ overages (whatever -that- means). Usually (again FOR ME) it’s inaccurate–displaying overs when the sound appears fine.
But the main thing is that I look at it and go “so what?” It doesn’t -help- me in any way.
What I -want- is a breakdown (by VST or VSTi or other subsystem) by PERCENTAGE OF UTILISATION as one gets in the UAD Performance meter (if you have a UAD-1 or UAD-2) -or- in the Windows Task Mgr.
I need to see -which- plugs are using the most resources—either causing CPU overs or disk overs. THAT would help me.
Yowza. That’s EXACTLY what Cubase needs. And have you read the doc for that feature? Double Yowza.
I gotta say, Studio 3 has some -very- nice stuff. Maybe it’s because they’re starting from a clean slate, but they just do things like this is such a more ‘pro’ way. I mean… they think about details for each feature, rather than just slapping on stuff (like the current Perf Meter in Cubase). And then they write GOOD docs for it!
