Nebula 3 Users... Pro Upgrade Worth It?

[energizer bunny]

Sorry I cant help you but I would be interested to hear what experience people had going from 32bit Nebula to 64bit. I'll be doing that myself next year.

[JWard]

Yeah I get the impression that the Nebula 3 x32 VST isn't the issue... it's the libraries that cause the slow load times. Maybe an SSD drive would help?
Not sure though...

[stella645]

An SSD can help but mostly the slow loading is due to the sample rate conversion being carried out when you are using 96k libraries at 44.1 (or vice versa)

[kirkhawley]

I switched to 64-bit W7 and upgraded to Nebula 3 64-bit shortly thereafter (with 64-bit Reaper). Once I got there, a lot of my problems seemed to go away and it seems like I can run more instances of Nebula. Load times are still long for some reverb files. UI still seems hokey and only semi-useful, setup is awful, but soundwise I feel like I'm getting premium effects for low bucks.

-Kirk

[JWard]

Originally Posted by kirkhawley

I switched to 64-bit W7 and upgraded to Nebula 3 64-bit shortly thereafter (with 64-bit Reaper). Once I got there, a lot of my problems seemed to go away and it seems like I can run more instances of Nebula. Load times are still long for some reverb files.

Thanks Kirk... if I might ask, did your overall load times improve with the 64-bit version? I'm using the 44.1 AITB EQ programs so the conversion isn't necessary (thanks Stella) within my 24/44.1 DAW. Still, 4 or 5 instances takes upwards of a minute to fully load.. and that's using frozen soft synths and .wavs.

Ironically when I'm playing the entire track, I'm only using 4 to 5% CPU.