Hi all,
I did some testing with the IK plugs (EQ432, british channel, bus comp) and I noticed the instance count was very low in PT11,10 and Cubase 7.X. At first I just thought these plugs just demand more from my machine, but I found that for some reason the IK plugs are primarily using only 2 of the 8 cores on my MacPro, using Mavericks 10.9.2. Once those are maxed my session come to a halt and the main meters in any DAW are maxed, even though my computer still has plenty of headroom. Can anyone speak to the poor multithreading with IK plugs? As a side note, I tried other thirdparty party plugs like the Avid plugs or Plugin Alliance and they didn't behave this way. Instead, they balanced their load evenly across all cores. The only plugins that displayed similar behavior as my IK plugs was iZotope's Ozone 5. All of my plugins are up to date and enabling or disabling oversampling made no difference. Testing sessions were at 48k/24bit and ranged from 64-1024 buffer using a Steinberg MR816X FW interface.
Thanks!
-Scott