Hey all,
Just a general question, what’s the advantage/disadvantage with turning on Multi Processing?
I got a new MBP 16" M3 Pro 32gig Ram and have been messing around with VST live 2 on it and I turned it on and found crackles and what seems like a built in mic feedback at stop of the song which shuts off after about a second.
I saved it, shut it down and re-opened it. Crackles have stopped however audio doesn’t sound as clean, I think anyway… so will turn off multi processing off.
Just wondering what’s the use of this option, I wasn’t able to see anything about it in the manual so thought to come and ask here about it. I have searched the forums, and. have seen people with other issues and “make sure multi processing is off” has been mentioned as a help. So was just curious as to what purpose does it serve.
Although there is a longer explanation and history behind, I think currently most of us keeping this OFF.
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It does make sense if for instance the only thing you do is to have a lot of Layers running. Those can benefit from parallel processing those Layers.
In general, all independent channels can be processed in parallel; but only if there are no sends etc which makes those dependent on other channels and/or processes etc. Also there is some overhead to organize the order which eats CPU power by itself.
Unfortunately, several problems can get in the way of multiprocessing, such as plugins trying to fight for CPU cores themselves, video multiprocessing, or other processes getting in the way. This may lead to multiprocessing to be counter-productive, so performance may be degraded instead of enhanced.
Just try what best fits your setup.
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