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Old 01-26-2012, 07:38 PM
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Hi. I have an Early 2011 MBP 15" 2.2ghz QuadCore. Running Pro Tools 10 on OSX Lion 10.7.2

I would like to know why is it that when I am running a session (with around 1.3GB of samples in Kontakt, some synths and Battery) I get these CPU errors. (NOTE* These errors only happen when I am using samples/VI's)

I have set my playback engine to use 7 out of 8 cores.
I am on 256 HW Buffer Size.
CPU Usage Limit is 85%.
Delay Compensation is Long

Now obviously the answer would be : Your machine is too slow. BUT

My activity monitor shows that my cpu is on average 78% idle.
3-5% is used by the system.

How is it that Pro Tools can only use around 20% of my cpu?

On the other hand... When working on a post production session. I have over 50 stereo tracks with a large amount of waves plug ins and sum buses with convolution reverbs, I get no errors at 256. AND my activity monitor shows that pro tools is taking up a good 50% of my cpu.


It seems that Pro Tools likes working with audio a lot more than midi/sample based stuff. But why would this be the case?
ALSO... I have a song multitracked in pro tools. EVERYTHING is audio except for Alicia Keys Piano Samples in Kontakt 4. Im playing at 256 completely fine. THEN the piano gets introduced in the song... it plays it .. and then when u think ur safe. bam! another cpu error. Then i skip ahead where there are no more samples being played... and viola! no more errors..


I just want my system to be utilized properly (I didnt spend this much on a fast computer for it not to be utilized.) and when I am running into CPU errors on pro tools.. but my activity monitor shows only 20% is actually being used by Pro Tools.. something is wrong.
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Old 01-26-2012, 09:16 PM
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Maybe Kontact doesn't like Pro Tools(or vice versa)
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Old 01-27-2012, 08:17 AM
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Make sure you turn off the processor management in Kontakt ( on settings - I can't remember the wording) but it clashes if you have two programs trying to manage the cpu load...
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Old 01-27-2012, 12:22 PM
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Yeah.. I turned that off a while ago. Never noticed a difference.

Im using Kontakt 4.. so maybe Kontakt 5 will work better. It seems like its a problem with the two programs.
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Old 01-27-2012, 05:26 PM
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freeze your kontakt trcks once your're happy with your midi, thre's no way to run several or just one kontakt instance in pro tools, it run for maybe 30 min then you get the cpu message, this apply for PT 8/9/10 most of people don't understand that PT is NOT a composer sequencer! all VI runs very buggy, i read in the forum that user have also problem with structure and velvet. of course those VI were made 3 years ago for PT 8
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Old 01-28-2012, 04:50 PM
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I've just upgraded to Kontakt 5 and I'm pretty unimpressed with it's cpu usage, it seems to be really greedy. When using Studio Drummer it uses over 50% of my CPU.
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Old 01-28-2012, 11:38 PM
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I've just upgraded to Kontakt 5 and I'm pretty unimpressed with it's cpu usage, it seems to be really greedy. When using Studio Drummer it uses over 50% of my CPU.
Now does that mean 50% in the Activity Monitor/Task Manager??
OR is that number in system usage inside Pro Tools.
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Old 01-29-2012, 08:25 AM
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join the club man -- http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=315517

shame new update did not address this fundamental issue....work around is tick the suppress warnings box and suffer a few clicks and pops instead
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Old 01-29-2012, 09:50 AM
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Yep - until pro tools goes 64 bit and can address more ram + when they do an upgrade to RTAS/AAX instrument performance then we should see a big improvement on how it works with VI's.

Also - I get much better performance using my desktop over my MBP.
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Old 01-31-2012, 04:43 AM
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Same error on my macbook pro 2007 with 3GB ram and 360gb disk. Recurding 12 tracks from soundcard without plugins or strange things...
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