Question for the devs: what do the plug-in performance numbers mean?

[Starship Krupa]

The ones you get when you hover the name of the plug-in in the FX bin:

It's a percentage, but of what?

Is this explained in more detail in the documentation somewhere? I couldn't find anything.

[Bass Guitar]

Good question. I was thinking the same thing when I saw this. It would seem that it is the processor core being used by the plugin. If so it would be valuable if it also told you which core that was. 

[Starship Krupa]

I think this was @Noel Borthwick's baby. Noel, any insights?

[Noel Borthwick]

Its a percentage of the total audio processing load of 100%. The core is irrelevant because processing is never on a single core. It flips between buffer to buffer to any available core.

[Bass Guitar]

Great. Now we can all see who the Hogs are! 
 

I think I’ll try this out on my collection of Drum VST’s. 

[Starship Krupa]

2 hours ago, Bass Guitar said:

Great. Now we can all see who the Hogs are! 

I think I’ll try this out on my collection of Drum VST’s. 

For those who don't know how to do this, the feature is accessible in Synth Rack. Alt+9 to open Synth Rack, then hover the name of the instrument.