Digital distortion and CPU usage

[gdgross]

Was messing with some patches tonight via the editor, and getting a nasty digital distortion, that seemed like it was related to how many blocks were present.

No red clip LEDs, and CPU usage was at 87% according to the editor.

Seemed like the nastiness was in the reverb; when I bypass it went away, but turning down the input gain on the reverb didn't clear it out, either.

Ive attached the preset, but it uses user cabs, so I suppose it will just grab whatever cabs are in your user slots... This is kind of cab-intensive, I'm running two stereo cabinets on this (experimenting with NF/FF Redwirez cabinets...)

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[gdgross]

Well, another update - went back to the editor and now it says 98% cpu usage...sounds like that's it perhaps. Maybe the Axe alone can hang but when it has to handle USB stuff too, that pushes it over the edge?

 

[LMO]

USB does consume CPU cycles...

 

[GM Arts]

IIRC, CPU usage in the editor is an estimate. What does the AxeFX say for CPU usage?