This seems to be more of an issue with the new ST4 library. I recall Noel mentioning somewhere that load balancing only applies to effects rather than instruments. VST2 or VST3 doesn't seem to make any difference in this regard, as well as setting plug-in load balancing on/off in Cakewalk preferences. With my old dual core at 3.4Ghz I only got about 3-4 instruments per instance. When that core gets over 50% on that single thread is when I start hearing noise. If I run a CPU monitor I can see one core (of 6) doing all of the heavy lifting. With my current system, Intel i5-9600K at 4.6Ghz, I start getting breakups (pops & crackles) with 8 instruments loaded in a single instance of ST4 using ASIO at 256 buffers (24/48000).
In practice, if you have 10 instruments in your project then few instances of ST4 with 2-3 instruments per each should handle it better than a single ST4 instance with all 10 instruments.
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