I am wondering if there’s a way to get some more performance out of renoise by doing any tweaks within the DAW apart from latency/khz which I have tried.
Cpu is e4500@3.4ghz, and it’s struggling with a couple of recent tracks due to the amount of FX in the tunes, making it very difficult to get them finished, so wondering if there’s any tweaks I can try within Renoise.
Using Asio of course (needed) but even on 100ms CPU is struggling with these tracks. Usually run 7ms on tracks with minmal effects and higher samplerate but started some different projects with allot going on recently and CPU just struggling now.
Here’s settings normally (obviously tried highest ms possible though)
When I can afford to will upgrade to a quad that can clock over 3.6ghz to help me along with this in future, but it wont be till next year.
i’m sure you’ve thought of this but my old laptop was a bit of a donkey with most stuff i was doing in renoise, but i got into the habit of bouncing things as i went, i’d leave the original instrument track fully muted so i could come back to it later…
that certainly helped me out until i got a new laptop…
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that, just rendering each track with all it’s effects and then putting it back into the song as a loop without effects and doing it that way. However this won’t work with allot of the tracks as there’s allot of reverb/delay transitions that change live through each pattern, and when you render it and put it back into the tune you lose those transitions and the tune don’t blend as you made it originally.
I think that’s what you meant? I’m going to give something like this a try though see if I can work something out. Really eager to get these tunes finished but it’s frustrating when playback is not working correctly due to heavy cpu LOAD
Surely general Windows tweaks are more likely to be of help to you. Exactly what OS are you running? Is it definitely just CPU or are you running out of Memory too?
You will definitely need to think about streamlining your songs.
Maybe just render the entire tracks that use a lot of effects.
A problem with using that many vsts is that 3-5 years from now, after you have changed some things or even have a different computer, will you still have the vsts installed? I made that mistake heavily relying on vsts.
Get it good enough to write all the tracks separately to wav or flac then do your final mixing in another song.
Since renoise can’t save the vst with the song, any finished songs should always be rendered to separate tracks for backup.
Yeah I guess that’s the best thing to do thanks for the help.
Am not to brothered if things have changed in future, don’t spend that long on tracks normally, once done they done and normally original will be lost at some point.
44 tracks sounds like a lot to me, I average around 15 tracks I suppose.
Hope you use a lot of sends to reduce excessive CPU consumption from VST effects.
Surprisingly this help just a little, not much at all but any sliglt minmal gain is allot!
Anyway, I managed to push the e4500 to 3.6ghz After some hard tweaking to memory settings and voltage, took some time to get it stable but it’s all running nicely at 3.6 which I think is a pretty hefty overclock from 2.2ghz…I could probably push it to 3.7 for benchmarking purposes though. Not going over 55c either with this cooler.
I managed to bounce a couple of tracks to without it effecting the transitions, and the track is running pretty smooth now, enough to get it finished. With the CPU increase gain about 10-15% CPU speed within renoise and another 12-14% bouncing the tracks.
After some hard tweaking to memory settings and voltage, took some time to get it stable but it’s all running nicely at 3.6 which I think is a pretty hefty overclock from 2.2ghz…I could probably push it to 3.7 for benchmarking purposes though. Not going over 55c either with this cooler.