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eq1 · 04-15-2019, 08:06 PM

^Yeah, I don't know, I wouldn't think so, especially most of the FX I listed above. Seems like they should only be doing calculations when actual data are passing through them - which means when stuff is playing... I could see how they might use CPU when they load, but then, you'd think they'd just sit there and wait for, at least, PLAY to be hit. I mean, it's 'signal processing' - if there's no signal, what's there to process?...

EDIT: OK, I found an old thread that said you can stop FX from running when 'stopped': Preferences/Audio/Playback and there's a couple options, one of them is "run FX when stopped", uncheck the box. I did that and it works. Simple enough. Still, what are these FX doing when there's no audio, no data, to be processed?? It seems really weird to me...

04-15-2019, 08:06 PM	#5
eq1 Human being with feelings Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: PNW, USA Posts: 698	^Yeah, I don't know, I wouldn't think so, especially most of the FX I listed above. Seems like they should only be doing calculations when actual data are passing through them - which means when stuff is playing... I could see how they might use CPU when they load, but then, you'd think they'd just sit there and wait for, at least, PLAY to be hit. I mean, it's 'signal processing' - if there's no signal, what's there to process?... EDIT: OK, I found an old thread that said you can stop FX from running when 'stopped': Preferences/Audio/Playback and there's a couple options, one of them is "run FX when stopped", uncheck the box. I did that and it works. Simple enough. Still, what are these FX doing when there's no audio, no data, to be processed?? It seems really weird to me... Last edited by eq1; 04-15-2019 at 08:14 PM.