AVA Vocal Flow ?

[datrakhaus]

Anyone else having DSP problems with the AVA Vocal Flow?
On my desktop 16 trk session with a few third party plug-ins normally has a DSP load of 20%. As soon as I add AVA Vocal Flow on one trk, it sends DSP load into 100% land. It's unusable.
On my laptop, with a simple 4 trk session, no plug-ins at all. When I insert AVA VF on one trk, DSP maxes out and the session runs slow and chopped. This, too, is unusable.

Desktop
Windows 10 Pro v.2004
Intel I5-3470 @ 3.20Ghz
16gb RAM
Mixbus 6.1.22

Laptop
Windows 10 Home v. 1909
Intel I5-6200U @ 2.30Ghz
8gb RAM
Mixbus 6.1.22

Thx, datrakhaus

[Sthauge]

Anyone else having DSP problems with the AVA Vocal Flow?

Yes, I also saw a jump in DSP load but approx. the same as with many single plugins on a mixbus to get the same functionality as AVA - VF. Such a plugin with so many function build into it will use DSP. The problem for me though was not the DSP load, but nearly 2 thousand XRUNs in 2 minutes. The solution was to remove all other plugins on the same mixbus, get rid of any inactive plugins in the session and turn the CPU Hyperthread(HT) off. Now I run without XRUNs but with rather high DSP load. The XRUN problem could be related to HT to my logic.

[Narubett]

Happened to me also, CPU hit 100% when I inserted 20 AVA VocalFlows on 20 mono tracks (AVA still on demo).

I'm on PT2020.5 / MacBook Pro running Mojave.

So I decided to bypass Vocal Character and it seems to fix the CPU problem. Now, session run smoothly with CPU at 12%. Maybe because Vocal Character use lots of power to process signal.

Will test some more later before I buy the plugin.

[datrakhaus]

Happened to me also, CPU hit 100% when I inserted 20 AVA VocalFlows on 20 mono tracks (AVA still on demo).

I'm on PT2020.5 / MacBook Pro running Mojave.

So I decided to bypass Vocal Character and it seems to fix the CPU problem. Now, session run smoothly with CPU at 12%. Maybe because Vocal Character use lots of power to process signal.

Will test some more later before I buy the plugin.

My issue is One instance of VF sent me to 100% immediately! On two different machines, set up differently.
Both unusable. Both with different sessions and trk counts. One used other plugs and the other used no plugs.

[madmaxmiller]

It does a significant jump here, too - more than if I load all the individual plugins which are combined in VF individually.
But it's a very convenient way to do a vocal chain, too...

MMM
(I mentioned that to the developers directly...)

[Dingo]

Happened to me also, CPU hit 100% when I inserted 20 AVA VocalFlows on 20 mono tracks (AVA still on demo).

I'm on PT2020.5 / MacBook Pro running Mojave.

So I decided to bypass Vocal Character and it seems to fix the CPU problem. Now, session run smoothly with CPU at 12%. Maybe because Vocal Character use lots of power to process signal.

Will test some more later before I buy the plugin.

When you first insert VF in PT it hits the CPU hard, but that settles down very quickly. VF is a complex plugin that is an entire channel strip/processing chain in one UI.
I have been using it for some time and in reality I tend to use 2 to 3 instances at any time (it is a Vocal tool), but I have tested with up to 32+ tracks of VF and have seen no issues at all with CPU.

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@datrakhaus... your situation sounds unusual.
I would suggest you email plugins@harrisonconsoles.com, link this thread and any other info you can provide including sample freq etc.

[Milt]

My DSP is also through the roof as well, didn't happen with the demo.

[Dingo]

My DSP is also through the roof as well, didn't happen with the demo.

I cannot understand that, there is no difference between the demo and the real thing other than having a lic.

[Milt]

My DSP is also through the roof as well, didn't happen with the demo.

I cannot understand that, there is no difference between the demo and the real thing other than having a lic.

I can't understand it either, probably sloppy testing on my part. It is well worth the price I paid for it.

[Dingo]

Yes it's a great plugin