Should I upgrade my CPU for renoise?

[e4r]

Hi guys.

I’m getting more and more of renoise getting his cpu meter to 100% and making some bad noise while playing a song due to the lack of cpu power. The weird thing is that my stand alone cpu meter doesn’t report such a high cpu usage. How could that be?
Renoise is reporting a CPU usage of 60-70% with a few peaks at 100% while my cpu meter is between 30-50% with a few peaks at 70%
I’m wondering If I should upgrade my current AMD Ryzen 5 1600 to something like a AMD Ryzen 5 3600X. Would that get rid of the problem?

[Flozen]

Your CPU should be fine. Please list the system configuration You are using for renoise.
Run dpc latency checker

https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

[e4r]

Thanks for the reply.
Here’s my renoise config:

And my DPC latency :

I must say that I’m using vsti sound effects more and more in my tunes, so it can be that too?

[Neuro_No_Neuro]

Yeah, probably the VSTi instruments- they suck up resources like nobody’s business!

[Flozen]

You can raise the buffer size a little bit.

[OopsIFly (Guz Lightning)]

Unless you are monitoring realtime fx, raise the buffer to like around 10ms, it will make a big difference in performance.

[e4r]

neat, raising the buffer seems to do the trick. thanks a lot guys !