Jacques Boileau

Got it! Thanks!

Could be due to another mailing IK did! I got it this afternoon: 'Group Buy: Now 17 for the price of one!' Just before things started picking up. These mailings seem to really help.

It just seemed awkward to me that with little changes in the release notes a plugin would double its CPU utilization. We can all upgrade our PCs so we have enough horse power, but I hope these companies take the time before a release to see what impact their changes do and if it could be optimized if needed. For now, I have rolled back the version of these plugins. It works better for me that way, although I know the day will come where I will feel the need to upgrade.

Yep! It has to be now and not only because of AT5, but this GB has not only been taxing on my disk space, but CPU too!

No, since the contest is the number of freebies, the max is 24. But, being an optimistic I did pick 24 though. As did Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann.

It must be getting harder and harder to get the news out to people who haven't heard about the GB yet. There must be less and less. I know I have run out of friends to tell. I would love to see you win our little contest! Everyone benefits!

With a multi layered guitar song with a lots of doubled guitars and details on multiple tracks, double the load makes a heck of a difference! For what is added between 5.0.3 and 5.1.1, it is hard to understand what made it such a jump. Although I understand the new VIR technology must take some part of the new CPU load in AT5, but AT5.0.3 is double AT4. So AT5.1.1 is four times as CPU hungry as AT4! Sometimes I wish we could disable VIR, as it is the case in AT5 CS, for lesser important guitar parts to free up some CPU. Just a thought.

Yes, but it is at 5.1.0 that the CPU usage increased.

I did some quick test. You can find my results here:

I have done some not very scientific but still valid CPU usage tests on these two plugins. I have a good but somewhat aging PC (i7 4th generation) and unfortunately can't afford having new versions of plugins that grab much more CPU than the previous version. So, for me and for you if you need plugins to be easy on your CPU, we can choose which version we want to use. Depends if things in the release notes of the latest version are a requirement for you usage or not. Amplitube 5 - v5.0.3 and v5.1.0 For this test I created a project in Cakewalk using Basic.cwt. I then added AT5 to the audio track and left it at the default preset. I didn't play, just left it idle. I took my reading from the Cakewalk performance module. v5.0.3: Audio Processing 1.3 Engine Load 10-15% v5.1.0: Audio Processing 2.5 Engine Load 20-30% Lurssen Mastering Console - v1.1.1 and v1.0.3 For this test I have used LMC standalone because that is the way I master my stuff. I used Windows Task Manager to determine the CPU usage of the two versions while playin a song in LMC. Of course these fluctuate, but it is easy to see that there has been quite an increase in CPU usage and if you are using LMC inside Cakewalk on a big project, it may make it non usable in that scenario. It certainly did for me. v1.1.1: 6% - 7% v1.0.3: 1.5% - 2.5%

No, the mic plugs directly into the speaker and there is a button on the speaker to start the calibration. I don't have the MTM's but I remember from reading about them when they came out. But I believe it takes it's reading from one position only, compared to 21 on the desktop.

ARC does not warn you as Sonarworks and their new sound ID does. Sienna rooms doesn't either, I believe. Would be nice for ARC to do it, but setting up a bus for correction plugins is not that hard either. It could be a nice addition to Cakewalk to let us add plugins to the hardware outputs to place these there. Just a thought.

Of course, I know it should be disabled on export and I do, but it is a valid point you made in case other readers might think otherwise. What I mean by my mix sound better using it, is that by mixing under a better listening environment my choices as mixer are easier and translate better. It is much easier to discern things when it is not overwhelmed by a too loud and muddy low end.

I picked up ARC3 in the GB, I used my calibration mic with cal file with it to balance my studio. I have been using it for a few weeks now and its a keeper! A lot less bass, but I hear much more of the rest of the mix. And it's easily defeatable if I want to hear my mix in a bass heavy environment. Probably the best way to cope with a lot less than perfect bedroom studio. At least the mix I have done with it were easier to do and sounded better.

Yep, kinda missed the meaning there! ? I'll add you right away so you can loose alongside Fleer! ?

Well, well, good Saturday morning to you all! And it is a nice Saturday morning with a brand new freebie! But you know what that means? Yes, yes, we have another looser that makes us all winners! And it's @Brian Lawler !!! Congrats to our looser! Next up: Our Man Flint Fleer! How many more can we knock off this list before it all comes to an end? The answer to this question, and none other, in less than 13 days! GroverKen 14 Brian Lawler 15 Fleer 16 Larry 17 telecode 101 17 InstrEd 17 husker 18 Marc Cormier 18 Doug Rintoul 19 kevin H 20 Peter 20 Bapu 21 Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann 24 Me 24

What!?!? No love for the dinosaur? ??? ?

Probably why it's still there. Some marketing guy probably said 'we need to take out all the T-Rex from all the T-Racks', so the one on the console survided the great marketing meteor! And its pretty discreet, easy to miss.

You got it! It's the Lurssen Mastering Console! And you too you look at your plugins from the back! ?

Ya, the other right! ? edit: I was looking at the plugin from the back!

Nice try, but I was talking about the logo that was on the bottom right corner of older versions of some plugins. Ex:

Hey, you know I love contests, and well since you guys have just about every IK product, here is one for you. I was a bit nostalgic of the T-Rex head on the IK plugins. I saw a few videos today that where old enough and still had the older plugins with the T-Rex head on it. ? IK has been working hard and got the T-Rex head out of all their plugins... except one! I just noticed that. Can any of you guys find which one? ?

Or they have plenty of new stuff and upgrades in the works to sell to everyone who get in on the GP and are now into their products!

Ok, for me it was only one track that was playing and all others where silent. So it really was easy to just duplicate that one track and delete it.

For me the fix was easy. I created a new track, copied audio and plugins from the offending track to it and deleted the offending solod track.