If you've got reverb, delay and chorus, try using a Plex Reverb/Delay or MultiDelay. The Plex can reduce your CPU usage significantly. I've not looked into the MultiDelay myself, but there are advantages.I am on the edge right about 80% or so. I would like to add a chorus but that puts me in the red. I should get rid of the reverb block as I mostly use the FM3 for gigging and dont typically need a reverb live. But it makes it sound so much better when I am noodling at home.
If you've got reverb, delay and chorus, try using a Plex Reverb/Delay or MultiDelay. The Plex can reduce your CPU usage significantly. I've not looked into the MultiDelay myself, but there are advantages.
If it curtails the use of 3 effects blocks at the expense of 1, does that save CPU usage?The MultiDelay can do a multitude of things.
With some feedback on the delays and really short delay times, you get something reverbish.
You can modulate short delays and get something chorusish.
Combine the two and you get a timey-wimey wibble-wobble of modulated reverbish.
Shorten the delay times enough and you get into flanger-ish sounds.
I use it along with an 8-voice analog chorus and the quad detune to get 16 voice chorusing. Smoooooove....
Not exactly cheap on CPU percentage, but it is super lush....
Yes. You can get all the things I mentioned out of it.If it curtails the use of 3 effects blocks at the expense of 1, does that save CPU usage?
Yeah, that might be a bit much. If this were a shindig where refreshments were served, I'd suggest to stick to the fresh fruit and cheese platter. It's healthier. Thanks for letting me pop in. I've got things to do Thursday (like my job) and can't stay. Quick cuppa tea and an English muffin/butter/jam, and I'm off. Tomorrow is a morning at the greasy spoon (kitchen), some coffee, and the newspaper.Yes. You can get all the things I mentioned out of it.
My usual use case for it, however, is part of a CPU-wasting 4-block combination to get 16 voices of chorusing happening.
There is no way that changing the CPU load will change the sound, if you had a preset with confusing routing - I suspect something else changed, and maybe you adjusted phasing or levels in some way which worked for you.Ok..... I have a question about CPU and a change in the sound when eliminating blocks (delete!!).
I snagged a particularly Factory preset by a known "artist" and I thought it sounded weak and thin.
It was hovering in the 79-82% range. It looked hastily thrown together with some convoluted
routing and parallel paths. I eliminated those. Ther CPU dropped into the 69-72 range and the tone
came alive.
Now, am I crazy? Should it be that drastic of a difference in sound by eliminating some blocks and
dropping the CPU down? Just sounds fuller and cleaner and with more Oooooomph! now that I
cleaned the preset up to my liking.
It was likely because the input gain or level of the suspect block when deleted cleaned up the signal path. Sometimes the easy part isn't knowing the "what caused this?", it's the "results from making the adjustments" and "using your ears" that produced better results.Yeah, definitely weird. I swear some odd clipping disappeared the instant I hit "delete Block."
FM9 to the rescue
And we get bumped down the forum page….
I have presets like that on my FM3. Leaving out the Reverb gives you like an extra 20+% and some of the modulators like trem are pretty low CPU.So what limitations are you guys seeing? For me, a normal studio preset would be a whammy, wah, drive, amp, 2 modulation (phase, flange, chorus or trem) Delay, Cab.
Live I like basically the same but I would want all 4 of the modulation fx to be available to me though it would be rare to use more than 2 at one time. I would likely control it with a Voodoo Labs Ground Control Pro.
Do you record with it also? If so how does the reamping process look for you?The FM9 looks nice but I’m pretty happy with the FM3 for its portability, I can toss it in my backpack with a bunch of other gear and walk to the jam space with my guitar. The extra switches and DSP are nice but not crucial for my use