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[Technical] How does S1 select a CPU core to assign to a channel?

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asked Jul 29, 2020 in Studio One 5 by TonalDynamics (1,370 points)
I understand this is rather a technical question, and might need someone from the dev team who knows, but after many years I am finally clear on how S1 uses my CPU power. Cores are assigned on a per-channel basis, and then have to process everything in serial on that channel with that core.

I am curious, what is the logic used by S1 to determine that core? Is it only something such as: if core x [CPU usage] < (a certain threshold) ? Or are there other more complex factors involved?

The reason I ask is because I am demoing some new guitar plugins (rather CPU hungry ones in fact), and when I create a new buss and then place an instance of the plugin on it, Studio One picks the core that was already loaded at 30% for the task, while there were several of my 6 cores (hex-core CPU, intel i7-6800k) at 10% or less load, and naturally when ANY core breaks 100% usage, we get audio artifacts.

Thusly it seems as though S1 is assigning a core to this bus which is limiting my CPU headroom as opposed to choosing one that is sitting at a lower load?

Any explanations or insight is appreciated, thanks in advance!

-TD

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answered Aug 4, 2020 by joshraymond (180 points)
Just want to say that I've been wondering the same thing. I have a 16 core processor which is severely underutilized by SO4. I'm dealing with crashes on a daily basis for fairly modest processing. Hoping this answer will attract some attention from whom it should concern.
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