does anyone else is having a very high usage of the CPU by guitar rig 6 ?.. this thing eats the cpu.. only with 1 single amp . even at 512 buffer size ...

 

Do you have the latest version (v6.2.2) ?
You can of course try out 256 Buffer Size. Update the graphic card driver.
Go back to the last working version!

Which operating system - which DAW - which graphics card do you use?
Please run the " LatencyMon " www.resplendence.com/latencymon
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System Requirements
- macOS 10.14, 10.15 or 11 (latest update) // - Windows 10 (64-bit, current service pack)
- Intel Core i5 or equivalent AMD CPU, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
- A graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1 and newer or DirectX 9 or 11.

"The easiest and most effective way to optimize a computer for audio is to use it for nothing else."

 

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I've not found GR6 to be any heavier than GR5 apart from the new ICM amp models, but even those are not that much heavier.

I'm on Windows though, but GR6 with Chicago+Reflektor eats up ~2% of CPU at 64 buffer size, 44,1kHz/24bit, on a Ryzen 2700 / Behringer 1820. Works fine at 32 buffer as well.

Is GR6 the only plugin that causes it? Latest versions? Hard to guess.

*edit:* Tried with 96kHz/24bit, 16 buffer size, similar results, eats up a wee bit of CPU as expected but not that much, around ~3% of CPU time.

 

it has always been heavy on use of resources. almost like the basic requirements are a current new, fast machine for every major version.

we don't have the Hardware Overview of the Mac. It's Logic, so you can * almost rule it out as causing that sort of issue; but you can't tell which version, or OS 10.x. from that screenshot.

I bet it is just a slower Mac.

 

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using 6.2.2 version , i'm on catalina 16 of ram and 3.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 here... I have used a lot of plugins without a problem but it seems that Guitar Rig 6 really sucks a lot of the Cpu.. a lot.. maybe too much

 

ok well, it's not slow. but 16gb RAM is probably your issue. the GR stated minimum requirements have always seemed optimistically low to me. does that result in the CPU spike because of spillover? your cpu is clearing data over and over and over because it has run out of ram space. overrunning the buffer. (something like that).

it's one of those old sales tactics. you ask if you can really run it at that spec, and they say "well,(long pause) you can". so yes, can you in theory get it to work? sure, but it's going to be a miserable experience and everyone involved already knows it.

what are convolution type effects like?

 

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Please run the " LatencyMon " www.resplendence.com/latencymon
"The easiest and most effective way to optimize a computer for audio is to use it for nothing else."

System Requirements
- macOS 10.14, 10.15 or 11 (latest update) // - Windows 10 (64-bit, current service pack)
- Intel Core i5 or equivalent AMD CPU, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
- A graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1 and newer or DirectX 9 or 11.

NI Support Team:
Increase the block size of your sound card and do not use an integrated Intel graphics chip.

A User answer:
increasing the block size of your sound card: Buffer size is set to 128 (anything below is unacceptable), but even with buffer size set to 256 or 512, nothing changes. not using a built-in Intel graphics chip. All MacBooks and Mac mini have built-in intel graphics. If you’re saying that GR6 was not developed for thousand of users with a built-in intel graphic cards, why is that not stated on the website before buying?? Do you also experience the audio dropouts when the Guitar Rig UI is closed? Less, but it happens, and one time is too much in audio recording. It ruins the complete recording. So, bottom line is: I spend 200$ and the only way to make GR6 run is buy a new computer? Mac mini intel i7, 32Gb ram, SSD. luckily all other sofware and plug-ins (Waves,Oxford, Izotope,….) don’t have issues with intel built-in graphic card.

NI Support Team:
Hi ACM, of course we have tested Guitar Rig on MacBooks and Mac minis, it was even developed on those (amongst others). So I'm am not at all saying what you are implying. Unfortunately some older integrated Intel graphics cards have some issues with their OpenGL support which is required for Guitar Rig 6. But since you are still experiencing audio dropouts even when the Guitar Rig UI is closed we can exclude this as the main source for error.

But in general, the symptom of "high cpu load" can be caused by all kinds of things, that's why in this thread you find various proposed solutions to various problems that all show the same symptom while still being separate issues. That's why it's sometimes hard to discern what the actual cause is.
Source: www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/guitar-rig-6-cpu-and-crash.431337/page-5

 

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LatencyMon is awesome, but it's Windows only. I don't think a similar tool exists for macOS. If one does, please let me/us know!

 

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all mix rack plugins are

 

based on my experience, GR6 is a cpu f*cker. The last build did not solve the cpu consumption at all
my pc specs are a bit old but not so far to a traditional studio setup (ryzen 1600Af, 16gb of ram 3200 Mhz)

 

The alternative is the " Overloud - TH-U Full "
- CPU footprint is surprisingly light even on complex setups with multiple processors, all without any extra added latency.
https://gearspace.com/board/reviews/1258486-overloud-th-u-full.html

 

its just a cpu fucker ful lstop im rocking a 5960x 128 gigs ram its still a cpu fucker.
But like i said multi plugin plugins useally are kilohaertz snap in is so is multipass so is phaseplant