won't cause freezes. Soon enough, I had to take away many of the Heaviest Fx because the Cpu would not go green on my M1 Mac.
At One point I decided to make a test song, to test my Mac capabilities, and then share the song with the Pc to see if it fared any different.
MAC M1 Mini
Reason CPU 231% (Multicore+Hyperthread active)
Reason uses 8 Gb ram + 6gb SHARED Ram or 13.68 gb....
Then it says Real virtual memory 1,22 Gb on 48Gb total virtual mem space...
Running LibRosettaRuntime
Mac M1 running Motu Ultralite Mk2 Latency down to 512ms.
Can run all 8 Channels, with 4 Fx chains on without stutter or Aliasing.
But it's not perfect. at 230% Cpu, it starts to stutter after a while, but run incredibly
well compared to the PC run.
The MOtu makes the difference when the CPu is no overloaded, with :Latency.
Here it doesnt shine... Cpu acts really strange, even with a new song with two Synths, the CPu gets ay 140%...
I don't understand how it is possible.... two bars in the GUI, and no problems playing...
Pc without the Motu (it's on the Mac now) Latency 512ms.
Can't run all 8 channels without stuttering.
No point to test how many fx chains.
Same song but with one Multi FX chain combinator swapped for Ouroburus,
it now can playback all 8 cahnnels with one FX Chain combi active per channel
without stutter - Reason stays between 4-5 bars of Cpu.
I will provide the test song. I use many RE's. All I have actually minus a couple. If You want to use this test,
just change the Synths you don't have with a RE Synth, or a RE effect.
The Drum Channel is one of the heaviest on Cpu, becuase of Polyphony. On
My Mac it did go up to 37%, and on my Pc to about 70%.....
It would be cool to automate the tracks and automation for the effects to make a test track, but
I use so many Re's... the purpose of this track was to try to test all RE's, to see if their graphics loaded with no
issues.Anyway, here is the track if you want to try and load it.
Mac Mini Monterey 8gb/256gb - Motu Ultralite MkII.
Pc HexacoreX2 Intel - 32gb/125gb - Roland UA-55 DX
File is too big for Reasontalk, so I shared it on my Google Drive.
The Pc seems It performs a little better, even if it has varied over time.
A run after some seconds, it started to stutter without any fx chain active.
I even replaced CH FX16 whole combinator with a Tape Echo effect
to reduce CPU load... still stutters... other run, with the replaced CHFX16, no stutter, plays smooth.
CPU at 40% but all 12 cores were running in symphony.
Same on the MAC Mini, but less "jumpy"
Getting rid of one of the Synth channels and all the FX chains gets everything more comfortable.
Cpu in Reason never go up 3 bars, but yet the CPU in Activity Monitor still sits at 210%...
A screenshot of the song with the CPU usage (Pc-Win 10)
Ram used by Rsn is 13.9 G. Total Win 17G. - (around 50% Ram)
Single Core Cpu 36% (Multicore enabled but not Hyperthread; only one core has all the load)
Song stutter, Multicore CPU hasn't switched all but one CPU core...
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