as saturators go i use cyanide2 (free) and the bundled ableton saturator (which i like a lot for some reason) exclusively

i find that saturation handles similar to compression in that you don't want to be using it on real noisy audio or deep bass

delete everything in the project that you aren't using, such as plugins that aren't doing anything or empty instrument channels you've abandoned. they all take up cpu load! certain plugins can be extremely cpu-heavy so try to see if there's one in particular that's hogging up your cpu time once you'...

sketchyderek wrote:Producer/DJ names... are there any left?

no

Princess Puke
Dogspout
A White Person
L'il Cum Bucket
Mediocre Mike
The Guzzler
Detective Pisstain
Coleslaw Idiot
The Girlfriend Haver
Big Rough Lunch Boi
Andy
Galaxy of Hair
Ralph Vader (vader helmet + nader mask when djing)
NudeShrek
Sneaky Christ
The ChoadBeast

Planet Shithead
PozMeForPrizes
ReductoSperm
The Fern Toucher

Napster, When It Was Cool
Razorpube
Baby With Muscles
Jon Arbuckle

L-Vis 1991
Troy Orbison
7BLOCC

America Online
M.U.D.C.L.I.T.
Weed Tiger
Panflute Bro
Gay Juggalo #1
Literally Hitler

An Actual Criminal
George Plops
Obese Charlie
Zarathustra's Balls
Hogs-a-Plenty
DJ Tiesto
ApeDeath

Skream

Burger Parade
Slimehat
The Corn King

Pasteurized

MilkShitter-420

Asstrain

The Big Cracker

DJ RapidShare

Gross Milk

all forums have been entering a twitter-induced death spiral for a while anyway You really think so? I don't see them serving the same function. But then what do I know? a lot of what a forum can do, i think that twitter can do better. its a forum where you personally get to decide who gets to post...

EPROM - ableton live
Stagga - some logs in a forest
Noah D - peanut butter and jelly
Starkey - a whole bunch of youtube tabs open at the same time

all forums have been entering a twitter-induced death spiral for a while anyway

are you sticking all your samples and VSTs on your SSD too?

i've been thinking of buying something small and cheap(er), putting the essentials on it and keeping the rest on spinners but i don't know if that will actually have much of an effect