Harnessing the Power of Your GPU
At the touch of a button, boost your computer's performance with Vienna Power House! This groundbreaking add-on for Vienna MIR Pro 3D utilizes GPU Audio's patented technology to offload convolution processes to the graphics card, reducing the load on your CPU. This powerful acceleration component frees up your CPU for other tasks, leveraging the vast processing capabilities of the more adaptable and streamlined GPU.
Vienna Power House currently works in connection with Vienna MIR Pro 3D and Vienna MIR Pro 3D (24). MIR’s core engine relies on convolution for placement and reverberation. This mathematical process taxes the CPU in a linear way. More audio sources, more output channels (from stereo to immersive formats), and long reverb tails may result in hundreds, even thousands of convolutions. An orchestra consisting of 80 stereo sources, mixed in 7.0.4 for Dolby Atmos, will create a maximum of 1,760 positional impulse responses and consequently the same number of convolutions (80 x 2 x 11), calculated in real-time at a preferably low latency. By lowering the CPU load by up to 50% or more, depending on your system, Vienna Power House provides you with significantly increased raw computation power at the click of the “GPU Power” button.
In its next iteration, you will also be able to outsource the convolution processes of the Vienna Synchron Player to the GPU. All SYNCHRON-ized Libraries will benefit from this power injection since they use convolution to place the rather dry instrument recordings onto the virtual Synchron Stage Vienna. (Synchron Libraries were recorded at Synchron Stage Vienna so they don’t use reverberation based on convolution.)
You don’t need to download and install Vienna Power House separately, but you will need to update Vienna MIR Pro 3D or Vienna MIR Pro 3D (24) using the Vienna Assistant. Upon purchase activate your license in the iLok License Manager and it will unlock Vienna MIR Pro 3D’s ability to outsource its convolution processes to the GPU.
Vienna Power House supports M1/M2 processors on the Mac, and NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards on the Windows side. The performance benefits will vary, depending on your DAW project, the number of tracks and convolutions, buffer size, sample rate, as well as VRAM and capacity of your GPU.
Mac:
- Apple M1/M2 (Pro/Max/Ultra), min. 16 GB, 32 GB recommended
- macOS Monterey (12.6.8) or later
Not compatible with ASIO Guard OFF in Cubase/Nuendo on macOS only.
Windows:
NVIDIA
- GTX 1000-Series
- RTX 2000-Series
- RTX 3000-Series
- RTX 4000-Series
- ~2016/17 or later, min. 8 GB VRAM
AMD
- RX 5000 Series
- RX 6000 Series
- RX 7000 Series
- ~2019 or later, min. 8 GB VRAM
Recommended (Windows):
- Nvidia RTX3060 12GB
- AMD Rx6700XT 12GB
Important! Please make sure to use the absolutely latest NVidia/AMD drivers installed from Nvidia/AMD directly, not drivers supplied with Windows.
Required Registration:
Vienna Symphonic Library products require you to register with the manufacturer at www.vsl.co.at and with www.ilok.com to activate your license.
This product requires an activation!
You can either "soft" activate the software on your computer without addditional hardware or transfer the license to an iLok USB dongle which has to be purchased separately. The iLok dongle can be used to run the protected software on different computers. Your licenses can be easily manged using the iLok Licence Manager. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the iLok Zero Downtime protection with TLC.
An internet connection on any computer and a free user-accout at www.ilok.com is required to authorize the product. In order to download and install your software products and sample libraries authorized via iLok, please use the Vienna Assistant.
Please check with the software manufacturer which iLok version is required at least if you want to use a hardware iLok!