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Glad to hear that it worked out! I know exactly how frustrating that is. When you have a good flow going on, and then suddenly you're unnable to keep on working due to technical limitations.. You'll be pleased to hear that Image-Line is planning on making the freezing process a lot faster / simpler in future versions. :)
My laptop can run Black Ops 4, yet can't seem to manage FL when loaded up with VSTs to the point I had to seek out this video. Turning up the buffering worked wonders, I don't record my piano rolls live and instead prefer to draw it up, so it's a perfect quick fix for me.
Games relies heavily on your video card (GPU) while music production relies entirely on the CPU. Increasing the buffer will give your CPU some more breathing room. :)
I've included a FREE download in the description! Download the "Core Parking Manager" (for windows). This will turn off core parking and ensure that your CPU runs at full speed all the time. If the CPU is throttling up and down constantly it can cause lag. :)
Wow I had no idea about the allow threaded processing option for plugins. Mine was off by default on all of them. After enabling it, my CPU went from 92 to 34. You're the man. Thank you so much.
Holyyyy shit you just made my life so much easier. Was wondering why my CPU gauge would jump from 10 to 80 and hang at 80 for several seconds after playing notes. I had no idea that every single serum patch I had loaded was running well after it was triggered due to the upward compression pulling noise up. Thank you so much!
This video helped with this new high quality sound vst I just got. So instead of 1 instrument that I'm able to play without freezing in fl studio I can now use 3 of them. I tried to put on a 4th one but then that makes it freeze up again. Overall way better.
I use a gaming laptop with 7th gen core i7 processor and my CPU bar in fl studio doesn't go past 30%. After working on a collab with another Producer, my processor tab went to the roof after loading two or more kontakt libraries. Turned out "allow threaded processing" was turned off as a result of the settings in the project I worked on. This video helped. Thanks a lot man. Really appreciate.
Everything was going so well with my DAW until I started playing the electric guitar and adding vocals all with mutiple effects to write songs, and started using Omnisphere 2. I 've got an i5-2.8ghz and was looking for a new computer yesterday! and stumbled upon this 😀 a lot of the settings were as on the video, then looked at the ppq settings on the projects that were really struggling with playback, lowed the ppq to 24 and playback resumed normally! On these songs they are mostly audio clips of the guitar/vocals with Kontakt doing the bass guitar and FPC the drums, so not overly reliant on precise ppq, so if you've doing this type of production try the ppq! Thanks so much for this video, helped a lot!
Hey bro thank you so much u been such a help I had this problem for so many months ... I was using kontakt and my project use to get stuck and run and I came across Ur video I tried it and it's peffecttttt now ... May God bless youuuuuu bro thankful to uuuuuuuu
Enabling smart disable is what did it for me, thanks a lot :p One thing to note about using smart disable though is that if you're using Fruity LSD in any of your mixer tracks, you'll have to click the arrow in the top left of the LSD window and untick smart disable because it's a generator that isn't directly linked to a piano roll, and so it forever mutes it.
I did these besides the obvious in FL Studio: undervolted the CPU, changed the thermal paste, cleaned the CPU fan, used Windows debloater script from Github. The undervolt alone improved perfomance by a lot, the debloater script removes garbage software from Windows and maybe can significantly reduce system latency.
thank you very much it worked in a sec i can now use heavy plugins like serum and dune with just 2 gb ram however the CPU rises up but i hear everything clearly : ) thanks for your help
Also after watching your 'the best computer for music production' 👍 it made me think of core tempratures and inspired me to get a quality (almost silent) KLIM coolpad as I'm using a laptop, realizing how warm the laptop gets when working some projects, it's seem to reduce the CPU load by a further 5-15% Having an ice cold laptop will also help to keep those core tempratures down! 😁 I would recommend anyone who is struggling to watch that video as well.
Thanks, glad you found the videos helpful. Heat is definitely a problem. When the temperature goes up during heavy load, the cpu speed will throttle down to keep temperatures in check, so ensuring good ventilation will help boost performance. 😀
The 2min 55 mark in this brilliant video , tools/macros/switch smart disable for all plugins, took my CPU load from a 96 % clipping shattered wreck down to 4%-30% load, once again, THANKYOU
Awesome thank you for the video. I thought it was very well put together which made it super easy to retain the information, very concise. I have to say the most prevalent issue with online education or instruction is a tendency to over complicate the curriculum and even sometimes go way of topic : ). Not the case here . Well done ,I’m subscribed!
Indeed! That's the very reason I started making these tutorials in the first place. A friend of mine was struggling to learn music production. He watched countless tutorials but was always left confused, as many tended to drift off topic as you say, and make the video longer and more complicated than it had to be. I ended up making a few videos specifically for him, trying to break everything down and make it as short and simple as possible. And that's how it all started. I'm glad to see that people still find these videos helpful! It's what motivates me to make more videos like this :)
Amen Things found useful: - ppq can have a huge impact (has a huge impact for me). If you're using MIDI mainly, you don't need higher than the minimum, which is 24. - Asio4all seems pretty much the same CPU-wise, but gives a lower latency than FL Studio ASIO. - Always use smart disable - high performance mode - close all GUI windows (F12) in FL; moving around and having multiple plugin windows open in FL can increase CPU by 15 % when running hot already!! Can make a huge difference; for example, moving around a lot, having tons of windows open -> causes going over 100% , when CPU is already hot
Thank you so much! This saved my life brotha... My problem was that when I would run more than 2 Nexus instances at a time, the CPU would spike and overload and crackle and get hung up. But when I did the thing you said, about going into nexus and making sure the "Allow Threaded Processing" was clicked on. I did that and it works perfectly now. I tried running 6 to 7 instances of Nexus and no issues. Man I thought I was shit out of luck, but these tips fixed everything. Thank you so much.
Smart Disable works good on Nexus. Check the box Smart Disable in the Audio Settings (this turns the general option on in FL Studio) and in the Nexus instance, click on the dropdown menu in the upper left and select Smart Disable (this makes this instance of Nexus make use of the Smart Disable function).
Smart Disable works great on most plugins for me. But not all. Especially Native Instruments Raum VST doesn't work well with the function enabled. Long reverbs get cut off too early for example. I use this function only when work is still in progress. When rendering I mostly turn the option off, just to be sure.
I've been trying to figure out the best way to optimize CPU Usage for weeks now and couldn't find any straight forward answers - I didn't realize that my CPU problems were coming from putting a strain on a single core. Thank you so much for making this video and explaining about how routing several plugins and grouping them into busses affects multi-processing. I have a question - what if 10 different mixer tracks use a send for Reverb ? Does those tracks get processed by a single core then ? I don't understand how do people use busses in general (for leads, bass etc) ?
This is really a boom video i am thinking that why dont imageline did this i mean i know they have already uploaded about asio4all but deepen .hey firewalk u are rock.Rab rakha tere
This just makes Ableton Live 10 look silly. Ableton doesn't bridge 32bit plugins. Ableton doesn't have a smart CPU saver. Ableton doesn't even support VST3.
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FireWalk can u buff after export
FireWalk can you freeze after merge
You mean merged patterns? You can freeze anything as long as it's routed to a mixer insert. :)
FireWalk I already merged but can't render
What must I do
Not all heroes wear capes, 10/10 mi amigo.
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
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you doing god's work
Thanks man :) glad you liked it!
it really helped me i have this 9min track with16 serums and cpu was going bananasa this and the freezz method helped me get like 40% cpu back
Glad to hear that it worked out! I know exactly how frustrating that is. When you have a good flow going on, and then suddenly you're unnable to keep on working due to technical limitations..
You'll be pleased to hear that Image-Line is planning on making the freezing process a lot faster / simpler in future versions. :)
*God's
My laptop can run Black Ops 4, yet can't seem to manage FL when loaded up with VSTs to the point I had to seek out this video. Turning up the buffering worked wonders, I don't record my piano rolls live and instead prefer to draw it up, so it's a perfect quick fix for me.
Games relies heavily on your video card (GPU) while music production relies entirely on the CPU. Increasing the buffer will give your CPU some more breathing room. :)
Wow, this helped me a lot even 4 years later. Amazing help! Peace brother!
You're welcome
I've included a FREE download in the description!
Download the "Core Parking Manager" (for windows). This will turn off core parking and ensure that your CPU runs at full speed all the time. If the CPU is throttling up and down constantly it can cause lag. :)
everyone should watch this!
Thanks! :)
I can't believe that I made the mistake at 2:20 since years! Really good tips!
Glad you found it helpful! :)
Wow I had no idea about the allow threaded processing option for plugins. Mine was off by default on all of them. After enabling it, my CPU went from 92 to 34. You're the man. Thank you so much.
You're welcome :)
2:53 genuinely thank you I didn’t think I’d get to finish this beat I’m working on. Nothing was working up until that
You're welcome 🙂
Holyyyy shit you just made my life so much easier. Was wondering why my CPU gauge would jump from 10 to 80 and hang at 80 for several seconds after playing notes. I had no idea that every single serum patch I had loaded was running well after it was triggered due to the upward compression pulling noise up. Thank you so much!
You just earned another subscriber, TREMENDOUS help!!
@@henrygass4076 glad you found it helpful 😀
This video helped with this new high quality sound vst I just got. So instead of 1 instrument that I'm able to play without freezing in fl studio I can now use 3 of them. I tried to put on a 4th one but then that makes it freeze up again. Overall way better.
Hi, glad you found it helpful 😀
saved my song! thank you so much
Glad to hear it! :)
How can this be not clickbait, this is great
Glad you liked it :)
I use a gaming laptop with 7th gen core i7 processor and my CPU bar in fl studio doesn't go past 30%. After working on a collab with another Producer, my processor tab went to the roof after loading two or more kontakt libraries. Turned out "allow threaded processing" was turned off as a result of the settings in the project I worked on. This video helped. Thanks a lot man. Really appreciate.
You're welcome :) Glad you figured it out. I've seen many cases where just one or two synths manages to bring down the cpu
Your my hero man, lol. Now my projects are starting to get enormous, these tips are very welcome.. keep these vids coming man your awesome!
Glad you found it helpful! :)
brooo thank you soo much. My Fl Studio seemed choppy and laggy but you helped me a lot and now it runs smoothly.
this man has saved my sanity for 3 years I've struggled with my CPU
Glad you finally sorted it out :)
Great video! Still relevant in 2023
Everything was going so well with my DAW until I started playing the electric guitar and adding vocals all with mutiple effects to write songs, and started using Omnisphere 2. I 've got an i5-2.8ghz and was looking for a new computer yesterday! and stumbled upon this 😀 a lot of the settings were as on the video, then looked at the ppq settings on the projects that were really struggling with playback, lowed the ppq to 24 and playback resumed normally! On these songs they are mostly audio clips of the guitar/vocals with Kontakt doing the bass guitar and FPC the drums, so not overly reliant on precise ppq, so if you've doing this type of production try the ppq! Thanks so much for this video, helped a lot!
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful 😀
Hey bro thank you so much u been such a help I had this problem for so many months ... I was using kontakt and my project use to get stuck and run and I came across Ur video I tried it and it's peffecttttt now ... May God bless youuuuuu bro thankful to uuuuuuuu
You're welcome :)
Enabling smart disable is what did it for me, thanks a lot :p
One thing to note about using smart disable though is that if you're using Fruity LSD in any of your mixer tracks, you'll have to click the arrow in the top left of the LSD window and untick smart disable because it's a generator that isn't directly linked to a piano roll, and so it forever mutes it.
You're welcome :)
phewh. thanks bro you make me tension free.
You're welcome :)
I did these besides the obvious in FL Studio: undervolted the CPU, changed the thermal paste, cleaned the CPU fan, used Windows debloater script from Github.
The undervolt alone improved perfomance by a lot, the debloater script removes garbage software from Windows and maybe can significantly reduce system latency.
amazing! helped me so much, thank you!
I'm glad I could help! That's why I make these videos :)
DISABLING "Multithreaded generator processing" helped me a lot for some reason.
so useful bro! thanks
You're welcome :)
thank you very much it worked in a sec
i can now use heavy plugins like serum and dune with just 2 gb ram however the CPU rises up
but i hear everything clearly : ) thanks for your help
You're welcome :)
Will stay tuned to your channal! Cheers!
Thanks 😀
Also after watching your 'the best computer for music production' 👍 it made me think of core tempratures and inspired me to get a quality (almost silent) KLIM coolpad as I'm using a laptop, realizing how warm the laptop gets when working some projects, it's seem to reduce the CPU load by a further 5-15% Having an ice cold laptop will also help to keep those core tempratures down! 😁 I would recommend anyone who is struggling to watch that video as well.
Thanks, glad you found the videos helpful. Heat is definitely a problem. When the temperature goes up during heavy load, the cpu speed will throttle down to keep temperatures in check, so ensuring good ventilation will help boost performance. 😀
oh my god😱 men you're amazing I've really needed this tutorial, I love you so much
Glad I could help :)
@@FireWalkMusic you are a godsend
Thanks. Now I can run Kontakt Library smoothly
You're welcome :)
Great tutorial! :)
Thanks! :)
FireWalk, thank you so much for your FL STUDIO series.. You have helped out so many.
Glad to hear it. You're welcome :)
great tutorial.. People with CPU problems will be helped a lot. Thanks ! ;-)
Thanks man! :D
This helped me solve all my problems! THANK YOU! :)
That's good to hear! I'm glad it was helpful to you. :)
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCHHHHH! THIS VIDEO HELPED ME BETTER THAN OTHER VIDEOS.
Glad to hear it :) You're welcome
The 2min 55 mark in this brilliant video , tools/macros/switch smart disable for all plugins, took my CPU load from a 96 % clipping shattered wreck down to 4%-30% load, once again, THANKYOU
Glad you found it helpful! :)
great tutorial. short and thorough. i appreciate you.
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful 😀
Awesome thank you for the video. I thought it was very well put together which made it super easy to retain the information, very concise. I have to say the most prevalent issue with online education or instruction is a tendency to over complicate the curriculum and even sometimes go way of topic : ). Not the case here . Well done ,I’m subscribed!
Indeed! That's the very reason I started making these tutorials in the first place. A friend of mine was struggling to learn music production. He watched countless tutorials but was always left confused, as many tended to drift off topic as you say, and make the video longer and more complicated than it had to be. I ended up making a few videos specifically for him, trying to break everything down and make it as short and simple as possible. And that's how it all started. I'm glad to see that people still find these videos helpful! It's what motivates me to make more videos like this :)
Amen
Things found useful:
- ppq can have a huge impact (has a huge impact for me). If you're using MIDI mainly, you don't need higher than the minimum, which is 24.
- Asio4all seems pretty much the same CPU-wise, but gives a lower latency than FL Studio ASIO.
- Always use smart disable
- high performance mode
- close all GUI windows (F12) in FL; moving around and having multiple plugin windows open in FL can increase CPU by 15 % when running hot already!! Can make a huge difference; for example, moving around a lot, having tons of windows open -> causes going over 100% , when CPU is already hot
Glad you found it helpful 😀
Awesome! Thank you!!
You're welcome
ITS WORKING! nice job dude
Thank you so much! You deserve much much much more than just another subscriber like me. =)
Thanks! Much appreciated :)
tip 9 was a gem
I love you!!! Thank you very much! Daw works perfectly now ☺️
You're welcome :)
Macros Option finally worked!
This solved all my problems, thanks!
Glad to hear it :)
Very informative! Thank you!
You're welcome :)
Great video, thanks!
You're welcome :)
FL 20 (2 songs) just went from processing 90-100% to 21-39% another song 50-70% to 12%. Thanks 💯👍
You're welcome! :)
If you ever need any background music/scores for anything, I got you 💯 THANKS AGAIN!!!
@@SleepyMontana thanks!
This is incredible, thank you
You're welcome 🙂
holy cow, my CPU was red until i "allow threaded proc...."! Thanks man, made a huge diffrent:!!!!!
You're welcome :)
Thank you so much! This saved my life brotha...
My problem was that when I would run more than 2 Nexus instances at a time, the CPU would spike and overload and crackle and get hung up. But when I did the thing you said, about going into nexus and making sure the "Allow Threaded Processing" was clicked on. I did that and it works perfectly now. I tried running 6 to 7 instances of Nexus and no issues. Man I thought I was shit out of luck, but these tips fixed everything.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome, I'm glad to hear it worked out! :)
Smart Disable works good on Nexus. Check the box Smart Disable in the Audio Settings (this turns the general option on in FL Studio) and in the Nexus instance, click on the dropdown menu in the upper left and select Smart Disable (this makes this instance of Nexus make use of the Smart Disable function).
Very helpful, thanks a lot!
You're welcome :)
Thank you so much man
You're welcome :)
Thankyou for the information
You're welcome :)
incredibly helpful friend, thank you.
You're welcome :)
Its works Great tutorial brother . Thank you soo much . ❤
You're welcome :)
very fantastic video!
Thanks 😊
liked and subbed bro.. bomb vid.
Thanks! :)
Great video! I like it
Thanks! :)
Thanks this has been à life saving tutoriel
Glad to hear it :)
I checked - everything is clean
Brilliant tutorial
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Smart Disable works great on most plugins for me. But not all. Especially Native Instruments Raum VST doesn't work well with the function enabled. Long reverbs get cut off too early for example.
I use this function only when work is still in progress. When rendering I mostly turn the option off, just to be sure.
It usually work quite well :)
great stuff ya got here bud. I knew most but you had some i didnt thanks alot
Glad you liked the video :)
At this point I think I just need a new computer
Appreciate your help!
You're welcome. I'm here to help. :)
Right when I clicked smart disable my CPU usage dropped! thankyou!
Thank you, it help me a lot ! :)
You're welcome :)
It worked that you so much I'm subscribing
Great! Glad you found it helpful 😀
Defenitly watch this video....
You are amazing bro you fixed my life😂🙉
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful :)
I've been trying to figure out the best way to optimize CPU Usage for weeks now and couldn't find any straight forward answers - I didn't realize that my CPU problems were coming from putting a strain on a single core. Thank you so much for making this video and explaining about how routing several plugins and grouping them into busses affects multi-processing. I have a question - what if 10 different mixer tracks use a send for Reverb ? Does those tracks get processed by a single core then ? I don't understand how do people use busses in general (for leads, bass etc) ?
you saved the session Thanks!
Glad I could be of help :)
Thank you , You're genius , You helped me!
Glad you found the video helpful :)
Thank you!
You're welcome 🙂
Thanks man.It worked
Great! Glad to hear it :)
This is really a boom video i am thinking that why dont imageline did this i mean i know they have already uploaded about asio4all but deepen .hey firewalk u are rock.Rab rakha tere
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! :) :)
bro that allow threaded processing saved me serum is big gay for not enabling by default
Glad you found t helpful :)
Thank you so much!
Thanks alot!!
You're welcome :)
thank you sooo much you've helped me you deserves the like and sub
Thanks! :)
Lifesaver..!!Tysm
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Thank you so much
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Thanks help me a lot
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Thank's bro!
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BRILLIANT INFORMATION THANKYOU
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Thanks it really worked🙏...
Cpu usage gone from 75%(average) to 1% with only one plugin idle😂
Great, glad to hear it! :)
Thank you so much 😊
You're welcome :)
Good video thank you
You're welcome :)
Thanks for the tips
you're welcome :)
This just makes Ableton Live 10 look silly. Ableton doesn't bridge 32bit plugins. Ableton doesn't have a smart CPU saver. Ableton doesn't even support VST3.
It's quite nice to be able to still use 32 bit plugins. You can always use jbridge but it's not nearly as stable.
Ableton and these programs r made to be used with higher performance computers over all
Thank you so much.
Wow
Thanks a lot, man ❤️❤️
You're welcome :)
I have that sound when you are writing on the blackboard 😀😀
:D
Cool vid bro
Thanks :)
it worked thank u vry much :)
That's great! You're welcome :)
Thank you so much you the best
You're welcome :)