Flowstone Guru Blog

[Exo]

New blog post Flowpaw and Flowstone 3.0.6

[tulamide]

New blog post Flowpaw and Flowstone 3.0.6

A side question: Do you, by any chance, know what the difference is between Flowstone and Flowstone STEM (as delivered with Flowpaw)?

It's just that I wonder what makes it so much cheaper (you will get it for 39€)?

[Exo]

New blog post Flowpaw and Flowstone 3.0.6

A side question: Do you, by any chance, know what the difference is between Flowstone and Flowstone STEM (as delivered with Flowpaw)?

It's just that I wonder what makes it so much cheaper (you will get it for 39€)?

I think the only difference is no VST or EXE export, but there might be other little differences I'm not sure.

[tulamide]

I think the only difference is no VST or EXE export, but there might be other little differences I'm not sure.

Thank you

[KG_is_back]

Another article made by me. This time we will have a look on how to measure the CPU load of your schematics and also what the different CPU meters show and why. The multitasking capabilities of modern computer are explained through easily reproducible examples, that I highly recommend to try out. Hopefully, this will shed some light into CPU load meters in FS and task manager, why they show different values and how is that relevant to you as a designer and also a user.

The CPU load metering explained

[Perfect Human Interface]

"the FS internal meter will always show higher values than the Task Manager."

Are you sure of this? I thought the Flowstone meter only showed CPU usage for stream calculations while Task Manager showed all usage, and that non-stream usage could be higher than stream usage. Or is that just for FL or something? The FL version doesn't have the CPU meter for some reason so we only have FL's own meter.

[Exo]

"the FS internal meter will always show higher values than the Task Manager."

Are you sure of this? I thought the Flowstone meter only showed CPU usage for stream calculations while Task Manager showed all usage, and that non-stream usage could be higher than stream usage. Or is that just for FL or something? The FL version doesn't have the CPU meter for some reason so we only have FL's own meter.

Good point, but the aim of this article was just to compare CPU meters for streams. I think maybe something could have been added to make that clear, generally when testing CPU usage in FS we care mostly about stream CPU.

[KG_is_back]

I have slightly updated the article to point out the fact that FS meter shows the stream CPU usage and that indeed in stream-poor schematics the gui redraws, green calculations and ruby may cause task manager to show higher values.

[Exo]

Updated the Free runnning oscillators this fixes a potential crash situation because the max index of the phase array was in bytes when it should have been in samples.

Also added a quick review of Flowstone 3.0.6

[KG_is_back]

OK, guys, another article is out. This time about Optimizing DSP code (in DSP code component). Hopefully you will find some useful tip there.