Midi Guitar 2 Standalone is a CPU Hog--Why?

Our standalone doesn’t have cpu loadbalancing like the DAW’s mostly have, that’s maybe something for the future. For now MG runs on 1 CPU core.
Most issues reported here are not related to CPU perfromance, but to the limits how well a polyphonic converter can work (speed and accuracy). It can not be 100% perfect, so that is the point were we might be “deflecting”, to say it in your words.
Your performance complaint can only be fixed by loadbalancing: we’ll have to see if that is feasible to add.