Which Uses More PC Resources, ProChannel or 3rd Party?

[Brian Walton]

On 2/24/2019 at 11:33 AM, bitflipper said:

ProChannel modules are not fundamentally different from third-party plugins. They're all doing the same things under the hood. Although efficiency does vary from one vendor to the next, the major factors such as buffer sizes will necessarily apply to all  plugins of that type.

 

There can be major differences between plugins in terms of the way they use resources.  

Try Putting Waves' Abbey Roads Reverb on 20 tracks, do the same with B-Reverb or Rematrix.  Chances are your computer can't handle Abbey Roads, but will have little issue with the Overload pro-channels.  Same basic effect, reverb.  

 

As for the OP, the Fly out EQ in the PC seem to be very efficient, use them on every channel all the time and don't see big spikes in the resorurce manager.  

[dcumpian]

14 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

There can be major differences between plugins in terms of the way they use resources.  

Try Putting Waves' Abbey Roads Reverb on 20 tracks, do the same with B-Reverb or Rematrix.  Chances are your computer can't handle Abbey Roads, but will have little issue with the Overload pro-channels.  Same basic effect, reverb.  

 

As for the OP, the Fly out EQ in the PC seem to be very efficient, use them on every channel all the time and don't see big spikes in the resorurce manager.  

For every plugin where the PC version uses less resources in comparison, there are others that will use less than the PC versions. None of the PC modules are real resource hogs, but if you find that you run into issues, there are simpler EQ's and compressors out there. Once you start down that road though, the PC holds a lot less appeal since you will have plugins scattered all over your tracks.

Dan

[bitflipper]

19 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

There can be major differences between plugins in terms of the way they use resources.  

Try Putting Waves' Abbey Roads Reverb on 20 tracks, do the same with B-Reverb or Rematrix.  Chances are your computer can't handle Abbey Roads, but will have little issue with the Overload pro-channels.  Same basic effect, reverb.  

 

As for the OP, the Fly out EQ in the PC seem to be very efficient, use them on every channel all the time and don't see big spikes in the resorurce manager.  

You are absolutely right. Reverbs are CPU-intensive by nature, and it takes some clever programming to make them less so without sacrificing quality.

So if you want to insert 20 reverbs into your project, then I guess you'll have to stick with the ProChannel reverb

[InstrEd]

1 hour ago, bitflipper said:

So if you want to insert 20 reverbs into your project, then I guess you'll have to stick with the ProChannel reverb

Or buy yourself a super  computer