Instrument/Effect Rack CPU Overhead?

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djfriendzone
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Instrument/Effect Rack CPU Overhead?

Post by djfriendzone » Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:50 am

New Live user here. I was wondering what the CPU overhead (if any) was for placing VST/VSTis inside of racks versus leaving them in the device view alone. I really want to start building up my Live library by moving over my favorite presets and VSTs into racks so I can use them with Push 2, but didn't want to spend all the time doing this if containing devices inside of racks adds a nontrivial strain to my computer.
One of the reasons I was hesitating to move all my presets to Komplete Kontrol was for the same reason; as Komplete Kontrol actually runs an "emulation" of the plugin which adds some CPU overhead that some users complain about.

Tone Deft
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Re: Instrument/Effect Rack CPU Overhead?

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:40 am

no, not really.

but under the hood Live does process things on a track by track basis so I guess maybe there's a difference but I've never come against it.
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Re: Instrument/Effect Rack CPU Overhead?

Post by pottering » Sat Jul 18, 2020 7:57 am

Never noticed any CPU overhead for Racks in my ancient Duo Core Pentium desktop, whatever CPU overhead they may have is negligible, unless you use a CPU even older and worse than a Pentium.
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djfriendzone
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Re: Instrument/Effect Rack CPU Overhead?

Post by djfriendzone » Sat Jul 18, 2020 5:43 pm

Thanks everyone. Looks like Racks are the way to go

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