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Plate = CPU Hog?

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kaboomer

Member
Hi Everybody:

One more day before the current plug-in sale ends, and I've got 50 Flexi-bucks burning a hole in my pocket.

I activated the Plate 140 demo, and it sounds fantastic. I'd love to use up the rest of my Flexipak $ on this plug, but....in my dual 2.0 ghz (non-AMD) G5 with one UAD card, instantiating a mere 2 of these plugs (into a mix that is already using 5 other UAD plugs: 3 Pultecs and 2 LA-2As) brings the whole thing crashing to a halt.

Is this plug known to be that power-hungry? Have other people had similar experiences? If you know and could chime in before tomorrow night, that'd be great.

Thanks!
 
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beal9000

Member
Yeah, it doesn't surprise me that you are having trouble running those plugs on one card. The Plate sounds great, but takes a good chunk of CPU to run.
 
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kaboomer

Member
Not only does it take a lot of CPU to run, it takes a lot of CPU even when its idling in bypass mode!

In an attempt to get my song to stop crashing, I turned the Plates off, then removed one from the song, tried bypassing all UAD plugs - everything. Nothing worked until in desperation, I just removed both Plates from the song altogether. That did the trick. Now everything's running fine.

Guess I won't be spending my $ on the Plate after all.
 
macmusic78

macmusic78

Active Member
no bypassing works fine - takes ALL the power from the plugin (but not the memory) in logic 7.1 . But you have to activate the release dsp power function in the uad configuration menu first.

And there is a chart on the uad site - it shows how much dsp each plugin takes - the plate i think takes 25% so you can run about 4 on a cart.
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Apple G5 DPL 1,8ghz; Logic Pro 7.1
 
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