Get Better CPU Performance When Making Music

[@HelpMeDevvon]

To clarify 48khz is my preferred sample rate for recording and a buffer size for mixing is really anything goes as long as it works. Whether it’s 512, 1024 or even 256 it’s fine for mixing. When it comes to recording you wanna get this buffer size as low as possible for less latency. For me the sweet spot is 128 because 64 takes to much power for my computer BUT if ur computer can handle it drop it as low as you want for recording!

[@Meetkmusic]

Hey bro make one video on how you make your video 😀

[@pyratellamarecordingstudio1062]

Always use highest buffer possible whe mixing. It gives better performance.

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Totally agree, Devvon. By the way, nice job on the AVID/Melodyne ARA presentation!

[@inharmonyofficial]

ALSO: (Things that helped me along the way) - Don't process your midi tracks that hard, rather bounce them out as audio and then do the processing - Work with sends/busses for the same elements (for example: create a bus where all your main vocals go to and then process the bus rather than putting the same processing on every single vocal track) - If you are mastering as well, first export the mixed version and create a new project just for mastering.

[@TrapSmoove]

Best teacher hands down and one of the best producers/artists out now. Has helped my music a ton!

[@Deigen]

same here bro hes amazing the best one man

[@MikeBurnsArrangedAccidents]

Yeah, he's really good.

[@iam_whole_e]

My guy. You just cleared up something I've been racking my head about for years. Salute!

[@manta5890]

Hey! could you please make a video on organization? Like Hardrives, storage and backup of libraries and plugins? Keep pc/mac efficient thanks. that would be so much important for all of us I think!

[@ASDPOWER]

Love your work Devon!!!

[@singerboi214]

I never knew that about buffer rate! You just made me do the biggest DUH!

[@8360ishan]

Good video..Sir plz make video on harmonies how you get good harmonies and mix them as well?? How to sing harmony or configure.

[@ollesundberg6004]

You're always hookin us up man you're like a hidden gem in the system always handing out these tips. Since you know what you doing i gotta ask you bro can you pleeeeeaaase make a ''Hotboii - dont need time'' vocal template? And a Polo G Finer things/ 21 type vocal? I've been trying for so long now but i just can't figure it out so yeah, hope you could help, anyways i hope you'll have a great day and thank you for always hookin us up

[@vysventuri]

Ayyyy these Devvon tuts be gems Frfr I don’t even look at the title anymore I just click like what’s on the curriculum today? Lmao 😂

[@usmanhassan136]

Foreal 🤣 class is in session

[@Luan_araujo91]

Devvon Man Ure DOPE, best audio mixing channel EVER!!!!!!!!

[@Kenfenit]

Nice tips! I saw some people confused so I wanted to help clarify, any higher buffer size above 512 should work for mixing. You should really aim for as low of a buffer size as possible without getting any popcorn (pops, crackles, or drops in audio). The least amount of latency is usually always better, but definitely not if it comes at the cost of sound quality.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Kenfenit yes yes and yesss

[@dulla8469]

PRO TIP: Close Google Chrome, and i mean QUIT, takes more cpu power than anything EDIT: if you have an external monitor connected to your macbook try taking it off aswell and if you see that nothing is working, look up how to replace Thermal Paste, its an easy process that will help cool down your cpu while its being used

[@Moltown]

WOW- will try this!

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Dulla ABSOLUTELY chrome eats cpu power

[@jonxjon6553]

Like delete google chrome or just make sure it’s not running

[@dulla8469]

@@jonxjon6553 make sure its not running

[@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216]

@@HelpMeDevvon how can u tell how much cpu power is being used and what is eating it up, are u guys just talking about lag and the program not running smoothly or am I missing something?

[@MyAudioAcademy]

Oh yeah! Dropping the gems 💪🏼💪🏼

[@SEANXOMUSIC]

Needed this bad 😂😂

[@gettyfeet9119]

Oh that was your saying that I kept with me since I heard it. “If it ain’t in 2 places it doesn’t exist.” Wish I took heed before I learned the hard way a few times

[@haarisabbasi]

One thing that happens too is that there is the initialization costs cpu power a little before the file comes in. The benefit without dynamic processing power is that you don’t constantly shift load and you can move faster in a session as a result since it is all in memory.

[@anthonypasco8729]

Thank you so much! You have helped me in so many ways through differing videos.

[@Kosich2]

you should make a video explaining how to prolong the life of a MacBook for music production, great as always.

[@jamesstephens6464]

Thank you! U took me too school.

[@Thesuproducer]

Man Dev, you need your own school for real i'll sign up lol but this helped me understand a lot about cpu usage. Thanks bro.

[@soulsantoro]

Do you use 44 or 48 for your sample rate ? You said both at the end but I think you meant to say 48 only. Great video by the way

[@mixdbyjoshua5621]

Right I was confused about that one too

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Soul Santoro my bad yes I use and prefer 48

[@taufeeqandrews8743]

GOAT.

[@BigDrewminatiLL7X]

I think the buffering is based on preferences I use 48 samples for recording and 1028 for mixing

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Drewminati dam your computer is beastly if you can get it that low on the buffer size I can’t record with it that low cause it takes more power

[@BigDrewminatiLL7X]

Help Me Devvon man it’s alright lmfao it’s only 16gb ram I can track using the bare minimum of effects though thanks for making these videos 💪🏿

[@BigDrewminatiLL7X]

Help Me Devvon man it’s alright lmfao it’s only 16gb ram I can track using the bare minimum of effects though thanks for making these videos 💪🏿

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Drewminati see I record with a shit ton of plugins on so that’s why I’ll never see anything like 64 samples lol

[@ked_engineering]

i wonder which are the specs of your Macbook Pro?

[@dulla8469]

my macbook and yours too, have ssds, but its a full ssd and ive noticed that having small amounts of storage like 10 to 20 gb compared to having 100+gb of free storage makes the session not run smoothly, so thank you for reminding me that i can just buy an external ssd, i was thinking of upgrading my ssd to 1 TB instead of 500gb, but it costs a shit ton, since only one or two companies manufacture ssds for macbooks

[@AriJordan]

You may also want to completely run your session from your secondary SSD rather than using the one dedicated to your CPU. It wasn't mentioned in the video, but this will also help you) if you're able to buy another SSD and you have an older MacBook (for example 2012) just take your DISC drive out and place the SSD onboard in that space.

[@suarezbros214]

Best upload you’ve uploaded in my opinion lol

[@EnshaMusic]

Thank you bro

[@G27STUDIO257]

Thanks a lot Devvon

[@HENKO_BEATS]

Here Ive been using a hdd for all my projekts and only 8 gb ram 😅 It's been ok since I haven't used that heavy plugins or instruments...but just a few days ago I purchased Omnisphere 2 and I can't use it in Pro Tools atm. So I've ordered a new ssd drive and more ram. Gonna have one ssd for windows and all software and another ssd for when I'm working in PT. Hopefully I can run Omnisphere better after that 😁

[@JakeMcGarryDrums]

Did it work out for you? I'm currently building a whole new pc rig to handle the onslaught of plug-ins in PT

[@HENKO_BEATS]

@@JakeMcGarryDrums I've added ram so I have 24 gb.. I bought a new ssd which now is my workdisc for projects . And I'm using another drive for storage . Omnisphere runs better but it's so heavy though. Some sound slows down the cpu a whole lot. But my projects aren't that massive so I manage 👍I usually only use 1 or 2 omnisphere sounds per beat.

[@vtunz1298]

Thanks bro, this was very helpful.

[@Phat-Monkey]

I remember in pro tools 10 / 11 / 12 (Windows) it had terrible multicore support, more cores u had the worse it was, some would remain dormant while others would spike to 100%. This is because Avid keep milking an age old engine, I bailed to Cubase and not once had this issue, but anyway, here is a good trick for those that still suffer the issue, take note of which core is spiking and in the Taskmanger set Affinity, untick the core, this core will now be used by Windows and u will notice the work load spreading across other cores, it resets itself every time u boot Pro Tools, peace...

[@Bboreal88]

Please, Devvon, GET TECHNICAL! It'll be absolutely fantastic if you could teach us Pro Tools in more depth. Great work, as always.

[@mj_ruke]

Devvon, can you mix my vocals with wave plugins and make my vocals sound clean please?

[@DDNTheStruggle]

Send em to me I’ll mix a song for you I ain’t the best but I’ll try my best

[@MikeBurnsArrangedAccidents]

Liked and subbed! Yep, had a limiter on my master. Bypassed but not inactive. That was a major cause of my current problem. I've got 32G of RAM. My meter tells me that Pro Tools is never using more than half of it. I wonder if doubling the RAM might help prevent CPU crashes in this case. Another thing I'll try is PCI express SSD's directly into the motherboard in place of SATA 3 connected SSD's 40GB a second transfer speeds vs 10. It seems though like the big bottleneck is the CPU, and they aren't getting much faster. I doubt that an upgrade to Pro Tools HD Native is going to let me play 50 instrument tracks at once.

[@justinlowther439]

🙏 ur lit just for doing this

[@STAXKK]

Knowledge Is 🔑

[@mackensonpetit8155]

Perfect 👌

[@btgblue]

real life teacher goodlooking

[@pyratellamarecordingstudio1062]

96khz makes analog emulation plugins sound better. If you don’t have a good enough computer you might need to commit them though.

[@TheBlackJewelz]

BRUUUHHHH 👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾

[@mamilyfamily]

you didn't explain how to change sample rates or use ssd drives

[@DunticMunford]

Devvon, do you do offer second-party engineering services?

[@nicknachoakalowkey7033]

DONT NO IF U ANSERED THIS IN ANY VIDEO BUT WHEN I PRESS RECORD IT TAKES 5 SECONDS BEFORE TRACK PLAYS....CANT FIND ANY VIDEOS ON IT

[@hleet]

you didn't talk about "freezing" tracks in ableton

[@Nick-mt2yu]

you like to use 44.1 or 48? you said you prefer both

[@zaycaprio]

My laptop suck axx …. Sound rack is stopping everything for me

[@gravityent9943]

Just use audio files or print everything to Wav format easily the best way!

[@MikeRP3147]

Still waiting for the review of the MBP

[@ΠέτροςΑρβανιτίδης]

What you said about about SSDs is not actually true. What an SSD does is make sure your files goes fast to your RAM and from there you processor read the files and plays them back. The only think that a fast storage drive will do is making the project or your samples/sample libraries load transfer faster on the ram.

[@lostlang]

Anyone know where the dynamic processing setting is in ableton?

[@falwinzzqx]

Really wanna know about this as well

[@lilnicktune9934]

Your reading my mind at this point lmao!

[@EnshaMusic]

how do I delete unwonted UAD plug-ins from Windows PC

[@IA7Anthony]

So I been laughing at these comments about you being psychic. I was up last night on Google, trying to figure out how to use less CPU and low and behold! Lmao.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Anthony Talbert dang maybe I’m psychic 🤔

[@UndrRoof]

I’m still confused do I run logic and my plug-ins from the SSD? Or what do I run from SSD and what do I run from my actual hard drive on my MacBook?

[@michaelburks7928]

What bout Mpc software?

[@IshredGaming]

please make a bryson tiller present!!

[@prodsmk1428]

Can my SDD Drive possibly be the reason for my problems with pro tools crashing ?

[@HatinKiwi]

Here: another comment for the algorithm :)

[@robertmaracayojr6095]

You said 48 and then 44 for your sample rate, which is it mang lol

[@robertmaracayojr6095]

Also i been learning from you since this covid thing started in March so good looks 🤘🏽 keep it up

[@jnkvngz2965]

devonn and "quote on quote"

[@Gdogw22]

How do I get in contact with you ?

[@Itsboyprince]

I use fl studio and lately my song gets offbeat a little when i export it, its coming from plugins ik but sounds great when im playing in the software how do i fix it

[@playnogames340]

Make sure your Plugin Delay Compensation is selected and toggled on in your mixer and also that your export settings for latency are selected as well. Please see links below. imgur.com/zHiEit0 imgur.com/UVi862H

[@fyahpan]

YOU LIKE 48 AND 44.1 HTZ HUH

[@HelpMeDevvon]

FYAH PAN 48khz mis spoke

[@soulsantoro]

Any recommendations for the hard drive ?

[@lg_414]

Samsung Evo SSD are the best...

[@soulsantoro]

Louis Gonzales appreciate that 👍👍

[@blitzthelabel830]

YOU CRAZYYY you stay blowing me up i swear this template i got is disgusting

[@theadventurer9897]

I still dont know why my pro tools is lagging so much. Ive got a 8 core - 16 thread cpu, 16gb ram, an ssd with 500 mb/s and it lags so bad! Already set the buffer size to 1024 still laggin. Any fixes??? Have to mention im currently using no interface (Using an virtual interface). Could that be the problem??? Thanks

[@HelpMeDevvon]

That’s your issue right there it’s the virtual interface and the high buffer size. Virtual interfaces like the pro tools aggregate can cause massive amounts of lag. Instead set your playback engines to Mac pro speakers or whatever your windows sound card is. Trust me the virtual interface and the buffer size is def ur issue!!

[@theadventurer9897]

@@HelpMeDevvon Thank you! I currently do not have an interface on me. In thinking about getting one which works for me just for a few weeks. You know a cheap one. Would a cheap one work? Like and m audio solo or a m audio air. Something around 100$ bucks

[@Nomasiac]

That many plug ins and no issues? u must have at least 16GB Ram 🤔🤔

[@snowzonvibes]

DOES SOMEONE DO PROFESSIONELL TWO TRACK + VOCAL MASTERING (mix is done) for CHEAP

[@Nitro21]

Fiver is a great site for outsourcing for mixing/mastering work.

[@MattDxstined]

If you still need that done, hit me up! Doing it for a lower price right now, but with analog equipment, so no BS.

[@orlandoberrios7155]

Why not 1028 buffer?

[@AriJordan]

You'd typically want to run with that as a last resort in mastering, 9/10 if you're running a larger session you'd want to go with 1028, but you don't really need it unless you're using too many power-hungry plugins.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

ORLANDO BERRIOS that’s fine toooooooo mixing buffer size is really anything goes as long as it works

[@ZI3RE]

Dang I just purchased a new computer 🤣

[@pumbabeats420]

U didnt show how to optimize windows or overclock the cpu. useless video

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Tim Andersson but you took the timeout to leave a comment though lol thanks and I would never recommend anyone to overclock they cpu and potentially fry their motherboard now that would make me evil

[@pumbabeats420]

@@HelpMeDevvon Fry thier motherboard? It sounds like you never overclocked a computer in your life lol. Clickbait title, what to say...

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Tim Andersson I encourage anyone to go on google and type in “can over clocking your cpu over heat it and damage it” then come back

[@pumbabeats420]

@@HelpMeDevvon Ofc it can if you enter a ridiculous voltage number and remove all safety options from bios. Its really really hard to be able to damage it in any way. Most of the cpus have built in turbo and overclock themself under load. If your monitor ur temps is close to imposible to damage it unless your going full retard mode.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Tim Andersson my friend you just made my point goodnight 😭😭