After using Izotope Alloy 2 for a couple of months I'm starting to see its limits. Though being a swiss army knife for mixing, Alloy 2 is EXTREMELY CPU heavy!!!! Just having more than 5 instances of Alloy 2 tends to raise my CPU usage to 60-80%, and I currently have a computer running on an intel i7 2.00 GHz speed with 2 cores, 4 logical processors. Note that this is even the case if I use no VSTs and mix entirely with just .wav audio files! It would seem I have to be more careful how often I use Alloy 2 now so I'm really disappointed because of this. Probably need to upgrade my PC specs, but I won't unless my current one dies, and that will be a while. Welcome to the never ending cycle of PC upgrades...