Theo.M wrote:I feel this is a long way away, in the works, long term plans.. i doubt we will see it before next year.. I have a feeling sylenth won't be too far off, which will be good enough for me! I hope lennard releases a way to convert banks, so i can get my hands on some of those amazing commercial ones.
Now that the new SDK will support SSE i think Spire might run ok as an RE, and also look forward to it. Right now I was going to sell it as after a year of having it, never use it as i can't see the quality vs cpu ratio. It's nice and all, but I honestly like sylenth just as much.
joeyluck wrote:
I thought one of the things people raved about Spire was it's CPU usage? Maybe I'm mistaking it for something else...?
no it's very very heavy. The one that is raved about for CPU is sylenth.
Enoch is right, taking this long to optimise spire is crazy.
To give you an example how heavy it is. a 4 note polyphonic synth sequence on spire takes an entire core. Four of those and can't do anything else, entire logic is used up. No other audio tracks, synths, nothing.
I also tried using it with reason ext midi and minihost and got 3 instances on top of a full reason project already maxing the cpu. This is because spire was able to use a different space to process outside of reason. But still, 3 instances and that was it.
It's definitely known as a "cpu pig".
I don't really think what comes out of it is worth the cpu, i mean it sounds nice and polished, but to me sylenth in it's own way sounds just as good. In fact, some of mastrcode subtractor combis sound just as good and use about 1/200th of the cpu.
In the current SDK, and let's face it, the new one will be later this year, spire RE is impossible. Maybe two instances on a top shelf 4ghz machine and then will kill it. Sylenth will be fine. So a bit of patience will be needed here.
In the meantime i invite you guys not to forget about an excellent synth we already have - Antidote! It can do great poly sounds and pads and everything edm and more really!
KHS One is great for bass and lead but too cpu heavy for pads and poly's.
Monopoly is light and sounds great too!
We don't need spire to make cool sounds. Sylenth would be nice for those who want access to 100,000 professional sounds, but even so does it make anything special sound wise we can't already do? Not sure.