Why is Cantabile 30x slower than Forte? (TL;DR — it’s not)

The other day I received an email from someone saying that they’d decided to go with Brainspawn Forte instead of Cantabile because Forte’s CPU load was so much lower. He included the following two screenshots that show both products running with 10 instances of Omnisphere with Forte’s CPU load at 1% and Cantabile’s at nearly 35%.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/blog/why-is-cantabile-30x-slower-than-forte---tl-dr---it-s-not--4eadb62c6e3a/