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cardinal

By fc on April 10, 2022 5:29 am

Got some new (free) toys. Somehow got Ableton to be pushing >30% on an M1Pro, with just three tracks. Such fun.

this cacophonous beauty goes so many places, was quite a joy to listen and let it take me away through so many bold territories heart

The first section makes me think it's what it may sound like to be caught in a tornado or a hurricane. And then there is this section of peace in the middle before some more winds come in and die out. I like also the otherwordliness of the melodies. Very interesting track. Only 3 tracks there? That sounded like a lot more.

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

this cacophonous beauty goes so many places, was quite a joy to listen and let it take me away through so many bold territories <3


That is a very nice comment, thank you for listening. heart


Kedbreak136 wrote:

The first section makes me think it's what it may sound like to be caught in a tornado or a hurricane. And then there is this section of peace in the middle before some more winds come in and die out. I like also the otherwordliness of the melodies. Very interesting track. Only 3 tracks there? That sounded like a lot more.

Yeah, just the three. One of them has a virtual modular synth on it, though, so I guess that's a bit of a tricksy descripsy. Thank you for the listen and comment!

A friend who was in the studio a couple of days was saying how her M1 was maxing out doing bugger all.  Very odd.  Dig the track.  Love that dense feedback tone which is sidechained.  Fun.

rdomain wrote:

A friend who was in the studio a couple of days was saying how her M1 was maxing out doing bugger all.  Very odd.  Dig the track.  Love that dense feedback tone which is sidechained.  Fun.


That's pretty weird. I've not really had that experience at all, thankfully. I was understandably hitting the ~30% mark, 1) Ableton Live sucks for CPU usage regardless of architecture, 2) VCV Rack also sucks for CPU usage regardless of architecture, so 3) wrap VCV Rack in some VST plugin, call it something else, and then run it inside Live with a bunch of other CPU intensive plugins and blam.

Yeah, that's what I thought. 

I haven't tried VCV within Live but yes, pretty easy to get to 30%.  I just bought a bunch of Izotope plugins and some of those are hungry buggers!

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