bkrumme
Experienced
no - 95% cpu according to Activity Monitor
this is after i notched up the brightness in the gui a bit
when i reset the gui, it went back down to 40%
sim
Yup, here too. It's not about the CPU% of the Axe-Fx preset, it's the CPU% that Axe-Edit itself utilizes in Mac OS X.
If you turn up the brightness in App Settings, the CPU (as displayed by Activity Monitor, a Mac utility) jumps to an astonishing 74% and stays there...
What video card is in your systems? If it's Intel or Nvidia integrated, this explains the CPU uptick. This would be Mac mini, older iMacs or Macbook. If it's discrete NVIDIA or ATI/AMD, you shouldn't see this. That would be Mac Pro, iMac with discrete video (newer), or MacBook Pro.