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keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:53 pm

Any suggestions on what's a heavy-cpu synth I can use? Just curious what my 1,1 pro can handle.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:01 pm

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:04 pm

The poster above is being funny. LOL. Good one Chk071.

Seriously, just get Diva and put it in Devine mode. That should do it.

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:08 pm

d16 Lush 101 in non-multicore mode to test a core

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:17 pm

wagtunes wrote:The poster above is being funny. LOL. Good one Chk071.

Seriously, just get Diva and put it in Devine mode. That should do it.

Not sure what you mean. The OP asked for a free synth, and Tyrell N6 is pretty CPU heavy for a free plugin.

You made me remember another good candidate though, Kairatune.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:22 pm

chk071 wrote:
wagtunes wrote:The poster above is being funny. LOL. Good one Chk071.

Seriously, just get Diva and put it in Devine mode. That should do it.
Not sure what you mean. The OP asked for a free synth, and Tyrell N6 is pretty CPU heavy for a free plugin. You made me remember another good candidate though, Kairatune.

Oops. I missed the free part. Still he can demo Diva without paying for it if he just wants to see if his MAC can handle it.

I didn't think Tyrell N6 was that CPU heavy. I own it and have no problem running tons of instances of it. It's certainly no Diva, that's for sure.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:26 pm

Ok. Surely the Diva demo would be a good stress test.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:56 pm

Yes, Diva demo mode will suffice.

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:12 pm

Another good choice: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=455485

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:19 pm

On the other hand, RePro-Alpha is no real life stress test, because it's sort of supposed to eat your CPU for breakfast. I guess it's better to perform such a test with "real" plugins, which will perform like that when you work with them.

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:57 pm

Not a synth but Kaleidoscope in low latency is the most cpu heavy thing on earth

A free synth which can be heavy on cpu would be Crystal Synth i think.

fischkopf · Post by **fischkopf** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:46 pm

The most demanding synth I can imagine is Diversion you can try the free demo.

exmatproton · Post by **exmatproton** » Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:45 pm

Try Kaivo (demo). DIVA is heavy, yes, but Kaivo will kill it. Just set it to 4 voices and enjoy

http://madronalabs.com/products/kaivo

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Mon May 02, 2016 4:06 am

a lot of Plugins have a knob/switch or menu that handles how many notes the synth will let u play at once.
so Max this out a Infinite

if u really wanna push a CPU Play staccato Chords Really fast with a Synth switched to Max "Voices"preset that has alot of "release" from an envelope

Playing Like this will stress any CPU out there

CPU heavy free synth to stress out my mac pro