Running multiple apps at once

[Telegram Sam]

I'm a n00b to digital, I've got protools and a vst plug-in synth track,
I made a loop in Maschine, and it could just be my ears,
but when I hit play with both running now,
it sounds like the Maschine is struggling to
hit all the notes, and perhaps the timing is a bit unsteady.

I may be running into some CPU limits. How to you get around this?

Do you print one instrument as you are done with it and keep fewer
virtual instruments running at once, or is this a problem that shouldn't
be happening with so few plugins running (only two, no effects)
and I just need to figure out what is causing it?

And, oh yeah, if I might ask: What is the correct term for what is happening here
so I can do a proper search?

 

[mjbphotos]

Yes, you got it - you render or stem-render the VSTi tracks, then mute them and turn off the fx. VSTis and plugins like reverb use a lot of RAM.

 

[kidkage]

I'm a n00b to digital, I've got protools and a vst plug-in synth track,
I made a loop in Maschine, and it could just be my ears,
but when I hit play with both running now,
it sounds like the Maschine is struggling to
hit all the notes, and perhaps the timing is a bit unsteady.

I may be running into some CPU limits. How to you get around this?

Do you print one instrument as you are done with it and keep fewer
virtual instruments running at once, or is this a problem that shouldn't
be happening with so few plugins running (only two, no effects)
and I just need to figure out what is causing it?

And, oh yeah, if I might ask: What is the correct term for what is happening here
so I can do a proper search?

Yeah, Maschine is pretty heavy on the CPU
My way around it in Cubase is to have a send from the Maschine instrument track running as an input in a separate audio track and just record what's monitoring from Maschine on the audio track. It's sort of like "real-time rendering" I guess.
It's possible in Cubase and Ableton, so I'm sure it's an option in PT as well.

It's cool because you can either record a bar or however long loop in Maschine and then just record the output of it for the length of the song, or you can bypass Maschines sequencer completely
And you get a nice little waveform to make things feel nice and organic.

I originally came up with the trick just for Maschine, but now use it for all VSTi's. I sometimes will even use it on a regular audio track with a few processing plug-ins on them that way I can then turn those off too

I've come to learn that quite a few people do it, and it's basically what 'sends' are meant for.
lol. I thought I was being so revolutionary.

 

[Telegram Sam]

Thanks guys, great advice here!