I have a project with 4 instruments, 20 flows with Noteperformer as playback engine. Is it normal?
Can I disable other VST playback engines or do other stuff to make Dorico less lagging on my machine?
That seems quite light! I have a project at the moment with 17 Players, and VST Engine is around 3 Gb; Dorico is 1.5 Gb.
Are you on Mac or Windows? How much RAM do you have? What model / specs is your hardware?
How much lag are you seeing? Noteperformer uses the least CPU and RAM of any playback setup (except Silence!). Perhaps there’s some other issue, like a MIDI feedback loop?
Hey @benwiggy thanks for getting back to me on this 
Well, ok so I should be feeling lucky
I’m on a mac, laptop M1 - what kind of machine do you use in your setup?
I think when updating to version 6 and NP to 5, I felt the overall performance as better and with a shorter interval between pressing play and actual playback starting. But today it’s slower. Maybe lag is the wrong word, the GUI is responding a little slower than before. But I’m just beginning using flows, perhaps that’s why?
Nice information to hear with NP being the least demanding!
Thanks
Hi @steinfeld, can you send me that project file to u dot stoermer at steinberg dot de and I can have a look and see what is bloating there so much.
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Don’t forget that NotePerformer intrinsically has a one second delay before you hear anything in playback, because it relies on a one-second read-ahead buffer in order to make decisions about the phrasing and expression of the music it’s playing.
Thanks so much! I just sent it
Yes I know, I had the feeling that this second had become a little shorter with the NP 5 update, but ok Any way Dorico is running a little slower on my system the last couple of days (since introducing myself to several flows), but I know that it’s not specific enough for you to give any advice from.
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