I would like to recommend this article to anyone interested in how system components, tweaks, and your song setup can impact performance and which role CPU, RAM and cores play on your system.
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How to get the most out of your system performance (CPU/RAM etc.) with Studio One
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And would you be kind enough to share it ?
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Much knowledge granted from this article, thanks Lukas.
I would like to add my 2 cents. I put the Performance monitor on, and here is what I noticed about CPU consumption, without even playing the song :
- may I have one VI track readied for record (just readied, not doing any recording), it varies between 40 to 50 (why does it vary while nothing happens, I don’t know).
- may I un-ready this track, consumption drops to half, around 20.
- may I deactivate the track, consumption drops again to half, around 12.
I would like to add my 2 cents. I put the Performance monitor on, and here is what I noticed about CPU consumption, without even playing the song :
- may I have one VI track readied for record (just readied, not doing any recording), it varies between 40 to 50 (why does it vary while nothing happens, I don’t know).
- may I un-ready this track, consumption drops to half, around 20.
- may I deactivate the track, consumption drops again to half, around 12.
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If you have to deal with audio cracks and latency, only two things really helped in my case. Everything else was, at the very best, useless.
- Use a core parking app such as ParkControl. That's what solved my latency problem.
- Disable the Core Isolation Memory Integrity in Windows Defender. Not only did it add latency, but it made the whole system not being able to handle audio at all, on a brand new 12600K.
Everything else has practically no impact and a blog post by a Microsoft engineer who used to work on Windows 10 confirmed that.
They admit that, regarding many of the tweaks shared on the Internet, they couldn't tell themselves whether or not they actually worked.
Next time I have to install Windows again, I'd only change the things listed above and see how it goes, and then I'd dig further with MSI-Utility and stuff like that.
- Use a core parking app such as ParkControl. That's what solved my latency problem.
- Disable the Core Isolation Memory Integrity in Windows Defender. Not only did it add latency, but it made the whole system not being able to handle audio at all, on a brand new 12600K.
Everything else has practically no impact and a blog post by a Microsoft engineer who used to work on Windows 10 confirmed that.
They admit that, regarding many of the tweaks shared on the Internet, they couldn't tell themselves whether or not they actually worked.
Next time I have to install Windows again, I'd only change the things listed above and see how it goes, and then I'd dig further with MSI-Utility and stuff like that.
Thank you very much for this information.
I was afraid that Studio One/Studio Pro doesn't use all available CPU cores, as there are other DAWs that do so. Im glad to learn that I wasn't right. The article says: "Studio One supports full multithreading, which means it can use any number of cores which the system has to offer, including dual Xeon CPUs." So my 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 seems to be a good investment