I have a 5th gen Intel Core i7 and I'm using a Komplete Audio 6 USB audio interface. I can only manage a performance rating of 23 with 48 note polyphony and 48kHz sample rate. This doesn't make sense to me. What could I be doing wrong?
I have a 5th gen Intel Core i7 and I'm using a Komplete Audio 6 USB audio interface. I can only manage a performance rating of 23 with 48 note polyphony and 48kHz sample rate. This doesn't make sense to me. What could I be doing wrong?
Hi mrtomaino,
There are lots of things that could impact performance, but I would start to make sure that your CPU doesn't throttle down (you could create a power plan to make music that keeps the CPU at 100%).
mrtomaino wrote:I have a 5th gen Intel Core i7 and I'm using a Komplete Audio 6 USB audio interface. I can only manage a performance rating of 23 with 48 note polyphony and 48kHz sample rate. This doesn't make sense to me. What could I be doing wrong?
Hi mrtomaino,
There are lots of things that could impact performance, but I would start to make sure that your CPU doesn't throttle down (you could create a power plan to make music that keeps the CPU at 100%).
Thanks for the response. I guess I can turn up the minimum processor state. Right now my standard power setting has minimum CPU 5% and maximum 100%. Are you suggesting I turn up the minimum to 100%? I am running Windows 8.1 btw.
Yes, turn up the minimum to 100%. Also disable core parking (google it) and SpeedStep.
FWIW - I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 running a Core i5 fifth generation & 6 Gigs of RAM with Linux Mint Mate 17.2 as the OS; and I haven't noticed any performance issues at all. Processor load never goes much above 25% with Pianoteq.