It will happily host all of the AU plug-ins you can throw at it. Don’t believe me? Try this on:
Believe it or not, it has:
- 1 ARP 2600 V
- 1 Moog Modular V
- 1 Boesendorfer 290
- 1 Crystal
- 1 Reaktor 5, and
- 2 Absynths
plus a random selection of GarageBand drum loops.
Even with many of the synths playing more than one note, I was still only running at around 70% CPU according to Activity Monitor.
Which machine, the new Laptop? Also, are plugins CPU centric meaning would they get better if more of them were ported to Intel?
LOL. I just tried playing the song again; this time without any other apps running and the CPUs both peaked at around 60%. I guess running mail, a browser with 10 tabs, and two chat clients while making music isn’t a good idea. 🙂
Even better news: I locked a couple of the tracks and tried again. This time I was down at around 40%. Very nice.
To answer Ken’s questions: Plugins definitely are CPU centric, but that wasn’t an issue here since I was running on the G5. Of the plugins I was using, only Crystal was universal. I should check whether the other ones have been updated.