Soundtoys Crystallizer - Manual (Page 20)

Optimizing CPU Usage
Crystallizer is a native plug-in, which means that it uses your computer’s processor
to do its audio processing. Because of its advanced DSP algorithms, Crystallizer can
put a pretty heavy load on your processor. Here are some tips to reduce the
processing:
• If you’re running multiple tracks through the same effect, use Crystallizer on an
aux track and use sends to route the audio through Crystallizer.
• Commit your effect to disk by using AudioSuite, or, by bouncing to disk
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IMPORTANT: Digidesign has a special low-latency version of the ‘Stream Manager’
driver for Pro Tools. This can reduce the latency from 1024 audio samples to 256
audio samples (from 21 milliseconds to 5 milliseconds at 48 kHz sample rate!) For
the latest and greatest info on optimizing HTDM for your system and to download
the low latency Stream Manager, please visit the HTDM Q&A page on the Digidesign
website. The link to it is:
http://www.digidesign.com/support/faq/htdm.html