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Hi all, I'm wondering what's the bottleneck in my PC? It's fast, but I'm wondering can it be faster?
It's a dedicated audio PC I've built running Windows 11 and Bitwig
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Here's the performance view when exporting the audio for a complex project with 20 tracks and approx 50 plugin instances.
I have Bitwig set so each plugin instance is in its own container. Bitwig seems to be doing a good job of spreading the load across all the CPU logical processors, but only 1 of them appears to be using over 50%, there's almost no activity on the disk, memory is only using half of the 32gb available and the graphics card is idling doing nothing :?:

This is an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G in an MSI 550A-Pro motherboard, 32gb DDR4 ram, so it's not a top spec machine, but it's decent enough (link to full spec here https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/JRatron/saved/VqdXRB)

What's the bottleneck likely to be in this system? Just the overhead of handling the multi-threading?
cheers,
James
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What bottleneck is there? What use is your screenshot, which is of a system comfortably not even close to bottlenecked?
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whyterabbyt wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:18 pm What bottleneck is there? What use is your screenshot, which is of a system comfortably not even close to bottlenecked?
I mean what is the speed limitation? The screenshot is from during exporting an audio render, which I understand will happen as fast as possible when not in real-time export. So I was confused to see that there appears to be plenty of spare capacity in the CPU, memory etc at a time when the machine should be flat-out working as hard as possible.
So I am wondering why this is the maximum speed if there are plenty of the obvious resources available. That's why I wondered if there is maybe something else like multi-threading which isn't so efficient and is slowing things down

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Jimantronic wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:45 am Here's the performance view when exporting the audio for a complex project with 20 tracks and approx 50 plugin instances.
Could you list the plugins used in each of your track for me ? It will help me to know if the 5700 is enough for my needs... you can PM ;)

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Kokoala wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:25 pm Could you list the plugins used in each of your track for me ? It will help me to know if the 5700 is enough for my needs... you can PM ;)
Sure, I'm back in the studio tomorrow evening, I'll try and grab you some info, but generally I've found the 5700 plenty good and the onboard graphics of the G version is way powerful enough for DAW duties

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Pictus wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:50 pm This may help viewtopic.php?p=7624448#p7624448
That's a great resource, thank you :tu: Many of them I have done already, but I have certainly missed a few tricks and you listed some nice tools to check and change settings which is always welcome :)

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Jimantronic wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:57 pm
Kokoala wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:25 pm Could you list the plugins used in each of your track for me ? It will help me to know if the 5700 is enough for my needs... you can PM ;)
Sure, I'm back in the studio tomorrow evening, I'll try and grab you some info, but generally I've found the 5700 plenty good and the onboard graphics of the G version is way powerful enough for DAW duties
thanks a lot...waiting for your precious info

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Kokoala wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:24 pm thanks a lot...waiting for your precious info
Try this. Lots of information here, so do ask questions.
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I've just swapped to an RME Babyface Pro FS today from a Motu Ultralite mk5 in a hope that better windows drivers will make for lower latency and a more stable system.

Also, just installing Ryzen Master and going over a few settings, although annoyingly the Ryzen Master Creator profile has just changed my CPU speed to be dynamic, whereas before I set it to 100% all the time.
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I don't see hungry vsti exept the Buchla on 1 track only...and ozone on the master....but maybe I'm wrong
difficult to have a point of view of your CPU
what's the CPU% when Bitwig is playing your project?

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The CPU is always boottlenecked by the longest audio chain, which eventually is handled by one processor only. Having multiple effects on master channel is a bad idea, to begin with I suggest to separate production and mastering stages.
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Yeap that Ozone will steal cycles like crazy there
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DJ Warmonger wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 3:51 pm The CPU is always boottlenecked by the longest audio chain, which eventually is handled by one processor only. Having multiple effects on master channel is a bad idea, to begin with I suggest to separate production and mastering stages.
Thanks for the input. That makes sense, but I still didn't understand why even if everything was queueing behind one chain and 1 processor, how come I wasn't seeing any single processor showing a high load at all.
One thing I did spot as a result of this is that despite having decent 3200mhz ram, it was running at 2133mhz as I hadn't set it up in the bios. So I enabled XMP and now it's running at 3200mhz as it should and it feels a touch speedier for sure.

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Kokoala wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 3:12 pm I don't see hungry vsti exept the Buchla on 1 track only...and ozone on the master....but maybe I'm wrong
difficult to have a point of view of your CPU
what's the CPU% when Bitwig is playing your project?
No, I think those are only heavy ones in this project. No Adaptiverb on this one :D
It uses approx the same 20% cpu when playing this one.

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Jimantronic wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:42 pm
Kokoala wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:24 pm thanks a lot...waiting for your precious info
Try this. Lots of information here, so do ask questions.

screenshot022.jpg

I've just swapped to an RME Babyface Pro FS today from a Motu Ultralite mk5 in a hope that better windows drivers will make for lower latency and a more stable system.

Also, just installing Ryzen Master and going over a few settings, although annoyingly the Ryzen Master Creator profile has just changed my CPU speed to be dynamic, whereas before I set it to 100% all the time.
Bit of a necro this but...

Which interface did you prefer between the BFProFS and the ULMk5?

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