Yamaha Montage M ESP VST for WIN (incl V.R. Unlocker)

You certainly have much more powerful CPU than my lowly laptop, =I can only run one instance of this patch, otherwise it's crackle galore at 10ms latency with WASAPI shared. The point is though, on this very laptop I can run like 50-60 instances of Spire with maxed out unison, many dozens of mixed FM, Synth and sample patches of Halion, in fact I've never run out of juice on my pretty complex projects using this very laptop. This Yamaha business though, it's just fucking hungry for no reason, it's obviously some lame ass programming happening. It IS hungry.

I am probably immune to these CPU problems because I have a Ryzen 9 3950X and 128GB of RAM.

quote by mosisJust on my initial try, 8 notes on Ascension pad uses 1.4% CPU on Ryzen 9 3950X. I will add more instances and get back to you.

Okay, I've cloned it nine times, so I have ten instances running, with five and six note chords playing from Cthulhu - around 10% CPU. It hovers between 9.1% and 11%, but is mainly under 10% most of the time. So yes - low CPU. The thing that matters is how fast your CPU's COREs are.

But there is a high background CPU use - when nothing is playing, those ten instances are using up 5.3% CPU. When I start a new session with nothing in it, FL Studio takes 0.3% CPU.

ps is that Ascension out of tune and horrible sounding for you too? It's a very odd preset.

I tried a 8 note (4 bars long) in Ableton 12 and Reaper 7 (each updated to last version) and the CPU meter (RT CPU in Reaper with record armed track) oscillates between 40 and 50% circa in both DAWs.

Windows Task Manager oscillates from 12 to 14 % CPU load.

My system specs:

Win 11, i5 9600k, 32 GB RAM, RME Fireface 800.

System is optimized in Bios (C-states etc...)

DPC Latency under 100 microseconds so it's all good.

CPU is not overclocked and runs at factory speeds with turboboost enabled.

When I load a blank project Ableton CPU indicates 0% and Reaper 0.2%.

You have amazingly low CPU consumption from one instance of this instrument, like 10 times less than mine but your CPU single thread performance should not be 10 times better than mine, in fact they should be very similar, if not mine being slightly faster.

in Multi thread you should have slightly less than 4 times better circa results but not 10.

I can't understand why your results are so good. Maybe this Vst is more optimized for AMD architecture?
What soundcard are you using? At which buffer?

If you want to see real CPU usage of this plugin watch 1 core of CPU on Task Manager cause DAW's meters or total CPU usage could be misleading.

Other hand, when softwares/plugins uses single core you cant see high usage percentages depends number of cores. Example, i5 9600K have 6 cores, 100 / 6 = 16, it means when you use this plugin you cant see more than %16-20 CPU usage on your machine. If you have good CPU fan you can do overclock, your CPU can handle 4500-4700 Mhz easily, even you can go higher but could be unstable.

I've just done another test in FL Studio - one instance of Cthulhu, then I set up Montage with 8 random parts/performances (I don't know what you call them) - 8 instruments running, one in each of the first 8 slots. Then I cloned it nine times, so I have ten instances of Montage running.
On my Ryzen 9 3950X, 128GB RAM, Task Manager shows 30% CPU, but I started to hear some audio breakup, so I changed my ASIO settings (using FL Studio ASIO) from 1024 samples to 2048 samples (to 47ms), and the audio breakup went away.

Looking at individual cores, eight of the cores were doing the work, they look to be at about 80%. When I stop the playback, those eight cores stay at around 25%.
These are more voices than I would ever use in anything I ever write, but I noticed since I got my Ryzen 9 3950X that none of my VSTs go above 3%-4% absolute tops, whereas on my old i7 4790k, many would go to 10% or more.

How long are those notes? Try to make them at least 2 bars long, just o be sure.

Amazing result, I don't know if this Vst is more optimized for AMD or what but I'm curious to know what kind of results are getting people with intel 13/14900k or similar CPUs

Hi, couldn't we create the folders + SL manually before install? It's what I implied above, sorry to not have precised this point.

I would think so, to avoid having to move them after.
I have probably over a hundred symlinks for DAW libraries, etc, and I only vaguely remember any glitches in the process.

Excuse my ignorance, could you explain the procedure?
I moved the Yamaha folder to another disk, there I created a shortcut to the Yamaha folder, I placed that shortcut in ProgramData, however every time I open Montage it generates a new Yamaha folder in ProgramData and obviously, vst3 loads in Cubase but without sound, it doesn't give an error but since it doesn't have the data it can't be heard.
Thanks!
I clarify that I have Omnisphere and Stylus working in the same way.