Dune 2 - I'm speechless, what have they done

[grs]

I feel you on the cpu thing.
Recently I upgraded my pc from a i7 950(3.07GHz) to an i7-4770K(3.50GHz)
I tell you the Spire CPU hogging is gone. On the old CPU I would get bogged down if two or three Spires were playing with 5 note chords and unison.
But now I have 7-10 instances open and the CPU never bogs down. So with those ball park instances I am now above my Virus TI voice stealing antics.

Random best things in spire apart form the speed of using it are the multi-band comp in the eq area, the HQ and BAND switches in the SAT section. The MTRX area is clean and easy to read. I can assign a global midi so every instance behaves as I expect. The 'warm' 'soft' and 'boost' in the eq are handy for placing a sound in the mix.

Obvious advantages with vsti verses Virus TI are: Timing. Timing. Speed of loading the vsti vs VC. Vsti s are generated at current sample-rate and sound cleaner when working at higher rates.