{"id":3789,"date":"2001-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"digital-performer-show-host-cpu-being-used-alot-instantiating","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/digital-performer-show-host-cpu-being-used-alot-instantiating\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Digital Performer still show that the (host) CPU is still being used alot when instantiating Powercore plugins?\u000b   What kind of Performance can I expect out of my Power Core?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     In order to Digital Performer to send audio to the Powercore card, the audio has to be &#8220;prepped&#8221;.  Also, when audio returns to DP from the Powercore, the same &#8220;prepping&#8221; needs to happen.   This takes a small amount of CPU power from your host processor (your Mac).  Every Powercore plugin will require the about same amount of CPU power for this preparation.    <br \/>    What this amounts to is that less power-demanding plugins, like EQ&#8217;s and Compressors may actually require more host CPU power than their native (host-based) twins.  However  plug-ins with higher power demands (like Reverbs) will actually take less CPU power than their native twins.<br \/>     Here&#8217;s an _aribitrary_ comparison * Please note * that your results WILL vary based on the type of compyter you have, processor type and speed, etc.  Use this as a guideline, but NOT as exactly what you should expect.<br \/>&#8211;  10 native EQ&#8217;s take 20% CPU power  <<>> 10 PowerCore EQ&#8217;s take 30% power<br \/>&#8211;  2 native Reverbs take %60 CPU power <<>> 2 Power Core Reverbs take %5 CPU power<br \/>   You can see that getting MORE small plugins with the PowerCore simply won&#8217;t be the case, but getting more Reverbs with the PowerCore may be possible.<br \/>   The key is that the PowerCore won&#8217;t necesarrily give you MORE Plugins, it will give you BETTER plug-ins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[34709],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[33794],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the    Why does Digital Performer still show that the (host) CPU is still being used alot when instantiating Powercore plugins?\u000b   What kind of Performance can I expect out of my Power Core?\u000b  page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/digital-performer-show-host-cpu-being-used-alot-instantiating\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why does Digital Performer still show that the (host) CPU is still being used alot when instantiating Powercore plugins?\u000b  What kind of Performance can I expect out of my Power Core?\u000b  - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In order to Digital Performer to send audio to the Powercore card, the audio has to be &#8220;prepped&#8221;. 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