Re: Digidesign please help with PTLE/NI Battery?
Ha! NI would say that! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
I'm a big, big fan of NI - I really think their soft synths set the standard, but I'm not sure about the efficiency.
Using the PT performance meter and my thumb, I'd say you're pretty close. I don't have d-verb installed at the moment - I just don't tend to use it. I use Realverb which from memory is about 30-50% higher in CPU usage compared to D-verb.
Taking R-verb as a model Battery seems to be the same as about one instance of Realverb - ie about 30% more than one copy of D-verb, this is playing a kit of about 20Mb of Akai samples.
This is compared to Koblo which seems to use about 50% of a D-verb instance, or Dynamo which seems to use the same as about 3 copies of Realverb i.e. all my system can really handle! (533 G4 384Mb Ram) (I can just about scrape 4 instances of Realverb with a few tracks and no other plugins).
Of course this is all rule of thumb, so in summary - I think your estimate is about right!
Good luck.
Pete
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