# Audio Performance Meter Showing CPU usage by individual plugins

**URL:** <https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455>\
**Category:** Cubase\
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455 "2026-03-02T19:09:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrKoko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@MrKoko](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/MrKoko)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455/1 "2026-03-02T19:09:10Z")

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It would be great if the Audio Performance Meter could show the CPU consumption by individual vst plugins. It would help us avoid loading multiple instances of certain CPU hungry plugins. Kindly take some inspiration from Fender Studio Pro/Studio One (DAW)

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**Author:** ![Martin.Jirsak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Martin.Jirsak](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Martin.Jirsak)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455/2 "2026-03-03T06:19:16Z")

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Hi,

Add the optional _feature-request_ tag to your post, please.

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**Author:** ![cubic13](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/cubic13/32/286924_2.png) [@cubic13](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/cubic13)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455/3 "2026-03-03T16:11:02Z")

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The problem is that the _Audio Performance_ meter isn’t, and has never been a CPU consumption one, so… 🤨

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**Author:** ![fese](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/fese/32/121132_2.png) [@fese](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/fese)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/audio-performance-meter-showing-cpu-usage-by-individual-plugins/1025455/4 "2026-03-03T18:55:16Z")

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This has already been requested before, like

> [@Be able to see which plugins that use the amount of CPU](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/be-able-to-see-which-plugins-that-use-the-amount-of-cpu/647634):
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> Be able to see which plugins that use the amount of CPU. Like the performance monitor in S1!

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> [@Advanced CPU Meter - Plugin-by-Plugin Breakdown](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/advanced-cpu-meter-plugin-by-plugin-breakdown/138497):
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> Can we see a more detailed CPU meter within Cubase, like the one in Studio One? Often times certain lesser-optimized plugins can have significant impact on CPU loads and having a breakdown of which plugins are using what resources can make the troubleshooting process 100x faster because you do not need to go through and disable plugins individually in the hopes of finding the issue. Here is a screenshot of the Studio One cpu meter (performance monitor) to show you what I am talking about. [ima…

Doesn’t look like it’s a priority for Steinberg (and those posts didn’t get that many votes, so it is probably not that high on the wishlist of most users).