Molekular taking 30%-50% of cpu on my system

Hi everybody,

Molekular is taking 30%-50% of CPU on my system (Win7 on an i7-2600K with 8GB ram).

Is this supposed to be normal?

 

Certainly not impossible. AFAIK Core level in Reaktor does not support multicore nor SSE2 instructions, so it's quite a lot of burden on a single CPU core...

 

Seems excessive to me.
I've not noticed more than a 20% CPU hit.
(i7-2600K; 16GB RAM, Win8.1)

 

I made a list of the CPU hits for each DSP setting reported here:

http://www.native-instruments.com/f...ared-to-kore-deep-series.218096/#post-1273336

Using this and choosing the ultimate maximum CPU settings, morphs, feedbacks and so on, this is the highest CPU I was able to get,
just over 30%:

 

I wonder if FFT based effects are more intensive on the CPU...

 

That's what I concluded from inspection.

 

In the About page, my version of Reaktor says it supports SSE, SSE2 and SSE3.
But I don't know if that applies to Core.

 

I don't think it does, Jim...

 

I think vector (SSE/2/3) support in reaktor is used primarily (or wholly) in primary for polyphony, and is not supported in core.
The current set of Core FFTs are very cpu hungry, hopefully Reaktor 6 will support them natively...

A few pro tips I've picked up on reaktor performance over the years:
- Switching off hyper threading, or even switching off all but one core, improves audio/event performance and drastically cut clicks/pops on high load ensembles for me.
- Disabling Intel's Speedstepping which downclocks the cpu. On OS X I disable it by replacing IntelCPUPowerManagement.kext with a matching version of NullCPUPowerManagement.kext from hackintosh forums, which means my cpu runs at full clock speed all the time. I imagine there are tools for windows and/or bios options on a pc for it, though obviously this means you have to be careful and watch your cpu temp, and doing so probably voids your warranty/decreases your cpu's lifespan etc. etc.

 

Thanks for the tips.

Nevertheless: It would be interesting for me to know if optimizations are planned. Because I don't see yet how you could use Molekular in bigger projects or with several instances.

Unfortunately (?) I already like it so much that I guess I'll be buying it anyway... ;-)

 

It is certainly possible - how about 4 Maschine 2 instances running 4 Molekular instances and a Reaktor synth:

http://www.native-instruments.com/f...ared-to-kore-deep-series.218096/#post-1273379

 

Thanks for your help!

Molekular not running in demo mode here anymore ;-)

 

Demo mode lasts 30 minutes I think.

 

You see the smiley in my post? ;-)

It meant I'm running in normal mode now!

I bought it and can't stop playing with it!