Does X & Y Cost Any CPU?

[Mincer]

If you are adding lots of extra X&Y settings throughout your chain, does that cost a lot of CPU? Do you gain CPU by say, not using 2 different amps X & Y? Or is the CPU determined not by preset, but by what is actually being used at any given time?

 

[calleballe11]

Its determined by what is used at the time. For example if barely max out CPU at X settings and land att say 89%, switching to a Y setting with the same blocks that take 1% more power can make you tip over and disable reverb.
Hope this helps

 

[chris]

by what is actually being used at any given time?

 

[Smittefar]

CPU is not affected by the the non-active X- or Y-state, but bypassed blocks add to CPU.