Question

I am demo'ing Studio One v3 to decide on a purchase. The CPU meter is going absolutely crazy with limited pluggz and vsts being used jumping up past 50% and fluxuating back and forth. At the same time I pull up the computer performance and it is showing the CPU as stable and around 6% with no fluxuation. Which CPU meter should I be going with? Why is the Studio One performance meter going so wild with the actual computer performance showing stable?

I am running a new setup on windows 10....32 gigs of ram....i7 processor etc

Answer 1

The Studio One cpu meter is showing something different from what the OS cpu meter shows, a different measurement, so they will rarely if ever match.

I'd personally suggest that you ignore them both until or unless audio playback is directly affected by lack of cpu resources, glitches, dropouts, etc, and when or of that happens perhaps try to stage a few things better like moving some built in instrument verbs to FX busses to help distribute the load better, or freezing cpu hungry plugins.