FR: show CPU usage per plugin in project bay

[SubbaseDnB]

One thng i would love to see is a Plugin performance meter(like the one in studio one,and i also think FL Studio just got one in the latest update)

Its a good way to see how much cpu,ram etc each plugin in a project is taking up

[ivansc]

What do you feel is missing from the current system or the workflow involved? Show performance meter and you have pretty much all the information available either en masse or on an individual plugin basis, depending on how you select.

[J Riley Hill]

we already have this in REAPER don't we?
The performance meter shows overall for every plugin on a track and the bottom left of fx window shows the currently selected plugins CPU usage. Whats missing?

[SubbaseDnB]

Ahh nice,didnt knew you could see the performance of all individual plugins used in a project

[J Riley Hill]

nice yeah! I noticed the meters in the bottom left of the fx window a few months ago. after having used REAPER for like 3 years 🤣.

[SubbaseDnB]

Is there a way to see how much cpu etch EACH individual plugin in a project is using?

[Xenakios]

Originally Posted by SubbaseDnB

how much cpu,ram etc each plugin in a project is taking up

I don't think it's possible to measure the used RAM per plugin due to how the dynamic libraries in the operating systems work. The plugins share the same memory heap as the host (unless they are bridged in another process). So it's really possible to only show how much the host process (Reaper in this case) is using in total. Have you actually seen per plugin RAM use meters in some other host?

Plugins themselves can do it to some degree if they carefully measure their memory allocations and deallocations. But the host can't query those estimates from the plugins, it's not part of the standard plugin APIs.

[Xenakios]

Originally Posted by SubbaseDnB

Is there a way to see how much cpu etch EACH individual plugin in a project is using?

Not as a list or tree that has all the plugins in the project, it's only shown in the FX chain window for the currently visible plugin.

[J Riley Hill]

The area we talking about is circled in red.
0.1%/0.2%

0.1% is the CPU usage of the currently SELECTED plugin(in this case the waves ssl) and the 0.2% refers to the total CPU used by the entire chain, (so the waves ssl and the reaEQ together in this case).

[SubbaseDnB]

ahh ok now i see what you guys mean,thanks

i havent used studio one pro since i got Reaper,but i believe to remember that that shows a list of all plugins in a project

and thats kind of what i would like to see in Reaper

[J Riley Hill]

You can see a list of all FX in a project with a bunch of details in the Project Bay actually, its pretty useful! (ctrl+b) is the default keyboard shortcut for that. It doesn't show the cpu usage per plugin though....

TBH I would definitely +1 adding the ability to look at each plugins CPU usage to the project bay. I would for sure use that feature.

Are you able to change the name of this thread? I can't remember if you can do that.
It could be something more specific like "FR: show CPU usage per plugin in project bay" since right now the name of this request is something REAPER can already do.

[SubbaseDnB]

Originally Posted by J Riley Hill

You can see a list of all FX in a project with a bunch of details in the Project Bay actually, its pretty useful! (ctrl+b) is the default keyboard shortcut for that. It doesn't show the cpu usage per plugin though....

TBH I would definitely +1 adding the ability to look at each plugins CPU usage to the project bay. I would for sure use that feature.

Are you able to change the name of this thread? I can't remember if you can do that.
It could be something more specific like "FR: show CPU usage per plugin in project bay" since right now the name of this request is something REAPER can already do.

nice.doesent reaaly have used the project bay,will check it,title changed