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Bought the bundle yesterday and have been playing with Sumu since. Was definitely impressed when I first imported a short solo vocal wave file through Vutu. The synthesized result was almost indistinguishable from the original. Not having a clue how to patch Sumu, I loaded one of the preset vocal patches and loaded up my partial. Fortunately I got a patch that played back the vocal partial pretty cleanly, and I was able to play back vocal harmonies, in pitch and in time, directly from the keyboard. There was still a little 'synthesized feel' to it, but considering I hadn't made any adjustments when importing or playing it back, was certainly pleased with the result. If you're actually replicating a complex wave using dozens of tiny little synths, hats off to you.
I'm actually able to run Sumu with 16 voices on Windows with Ableton Live, but as a recently retired software engineer, I built myself a fairly hefty desktop computer. I'm running a i9-13900KS processer on a MSI MEG 790 board with 128 G RAM and a RTX 4090 28G Video Card (although it doesn't appear Sumu uses it). Running Sumu set to 16 voices in Ableton cranks my CPU to about 70%, but it's been completely usable (other than my not knowing how to use it) 
Been running Sumu for most of the day, and no issues or crashes. Hopefully this might indicate that those people using less powerful machines may just be running into resource issues, and once you get the time to optimize, should hopefully clear that up.