Vienna Symphonic Library Forum
Forum Statistics

181,945 users have contributed to 42,195 threads and 254,636 posts.

In the past 24 hours, we have 5 new thread(s), 13 new post(s) and 51 new user(s).

  1. Home
  2. Sample Libraries
  3. Synchron Series
  4. question on cpu stuttering [synchron bosendorfer imperial]

  • question on cpu stuttering [synchron bosendorfer imperial]

    S
    S

    Hi

    I am using iMac 2015,

    • Catalina 10.15.5,
    • 4Ghz quad core
    • i7 intel processor
    • 16g ram
    • Fusion drive

    which I believe is way above recommended specs for the instrument. Nevertheless I still get cpu spike everytime I play the notes. tweaking around sample rate and buffer size doesn't do anything.

    Is there something I could fix?

    Bouncing midi file is seamless though. 

    Thank you!
  • bbeliusB
    bbeliusB

    Hi,

    I have no experience with it, but I assume a Fusion Drive is simply too slow. What you need is a real SSD drive with high 64k read times.
    If you buy a SSD make sure to format it with AFS or NTFS, FAT32 will result in bad performance.

    Best, Ben

    Ben@VSL | IT & Product Specialist
  • David B.D
    David B.D
    last edited
    last edited

    @bbelius said:

     

    If you buy a SSD make sure to format it with AFS...

    Best, Ben

    Do you mean HFS or APFS? Or does it not matter? 

    Thanks,

    David

    F308, D-274, 280VC, Bösendorfer Imperial, Vienna Imperial
  • PaulP
    VSL Team
    PaulP

    Hi David, 

    Both HFS and APFS will work on Mac. NTFS is the Windows variation..

    Best,
    Paul

    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL