Multichannel VST or Many Instrument tracks - CPU difference?

[stereolost]

@Svenne

It’s interesting to note that the Peak meter is overloading in stereolosts screendumps with the MIDI channels/VST Rack option. Whether this is caused by asking one instance of Kontakt handle all MIDI track or some other reason, is hard to tell because the dumps are taken at different positions in the song.

The “song” is the 4 bars loop, and i’ve made both screenshots in the highest CPU usage moments. So they are mostly reflecting the situation - the Multichannel project uses more cpu AND if you see the system monitoring window there are more peaks and falls on every core. It looks to me that Kontakt is using multiple cores, but does it worse than Cubase can with individual Instrument Tracks.

[Svenne]

It looks to me that what I’ve learned was correct. It’s better to use Instruments Tracks than MIDI Tracks + VST Rack, whenever possible. I think stereolost has proven that (Good job).

I’ve noticed that there is a preference setting for multi-core operation of the Kontakt VST plug-in, as well as in the stand-alone. However, I’ve been told that it’s the DAW (Cubase), not the plug-in (Kontakt) that decides how the cores are used.

It would be nice to hear from one of the programmers, for a clarification of this issue.

[dioman_leikari]

I personally save RAM using Multichannel VST setting.

I tested both the methods this week.