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Concept-

• Write five songs in five days. One per day with no pre or post overlap.

• No samples. Everything at it's core must be simple digital waveforms (sinusodal, saw, pulse, triangle, etc...).

• Everything is to be produced live (multiple takes are ok). Very minimal mixing and overall mastering can only be done in non-real time. All editing (beyond the initial instrument preps) must take place in real-time.

• Song prep can only consist of modifying readily available settings (nothing internal)

• Mastering cannot be done until all tracks are completed and can (and probably should) fall outside of the five day peroid.

• All sounds must be triggered internally. No external sequencing.

• External automation is allowed (real-time rules apply).

Preparation-

Spent a good portion of yesterday rebuilding a portion of an instrument to decrease CPU load. The load on that particular macro was roughly 30%. After completing the core rebuild, it was saying 140% (explain that one). It seems that the core level doesn't handle multi-voiced integrals and differentials well at all. The only other option would be to port the entire instrument into the core level. Seeing as how a large macro took me a few hours to port and there are dozens more, I don't think that will be happening anytime soon.
I had to add that extra instrument last night. Now the CPU is back up and peaking into the 90s. Seeing as I'm using another app for automation, this is no good.
Tried it on another (faster) computer and it's still peaking at ~85%. I need one of those 3GHz procs. Too bad I don't happen to have a few hundred dollars lying around. Back to the drawing board...
Restructured the internal mixing macros and a few others odds and ends... CPU now peaking at ~60% again! (The latch is your friend.) ~80 with realtime compression... Lets just hope the automation app doesn't swell up and choke the CPU.
After getting fed up with leveling, I decided to add limiters to each instrument. I'm biting at the holy processor peaks again. Now to restructure the macros and see how low I can go.
Managed to push the limiters down to less than 2%. Rock.
Everything seems to be running very stable. Now to try it out in the automation app and get things going.