The percentage is a somewhat arbitrary number presented to us to get a ball-park idea of how the CPU is doing. The metrics or algorithm changed for the current generation, and somewhere Cliff talked about the reasoning for the change but I can't remember where. For now there's CPU usage in the Wiki which touches on this.
If it’s the plex blk that pushed you over put it back in and try lowering the cab from hi res to standard for that scene if it wasn’t already. That should free you the cpu needed. Like chris mentioned the reverb has a dedicated processor so it wouldn’t be that.
Not saying you aren't having issues, but I have been trouble free after 3 gigs with mine.
That’s between you and Fractal.
It’s more likely you are way over the CPU limit on that preset.
Right on, thanks for the insight. I do tend to maximize my patches so that might be exactly the case.
What version of the firmware were you using ?
Not likely to be even close to 80%.
On an FM9? You’ll have to try harder than that to break it. That’d fit easily into an FM3. I didn’t test it, but I’d expect that sort of preset would fit with a lot of room to spare. Mine are a lot more complex and they fit inside an FM3 without problems.
No, not with what you told us. In all humility and embarrassment, we have absolutely no way of estimating what you will try because we couldn’t estimate what we’d try. Honestly, every one of us did stupid things as we built our first presets and we’d run into CPU warnings. Again, and again, but maybe not again because that was “those people”.
Sh’yah, until you get the unit.
A basic rig will easily fit in a FM3, though, without having heard the difference between high res reverb and economy, I don’t know why you’d try to specify that. Economy is excellent for normal/live use IMO. But either way that should fit without a problem. But like kids in candy stores we run amuck, crash into something, and get told that won’t do, but the Fractal is benevolent and will let you try again.
On an FM9? You’ll have to try harder than that to break it. That’d fit easily into an FM3. I didn’t test it, but I’d expect that sort of preset would fit with a lot of room to spare. Mine are a lot more complex and they fit inside an FM3 without problems.
But, seriously, without hearing what sort of reverb Fractal includes, you shouldn’t try to say “high quality”. They take no prisoners, especially on the FM9. The “economy” reverb is great for live work. “Normal” is great for accompanied studio work, and above that you are into “I can’t tell the difference”.
I had the same issue with mine the other day. Bottom right 2 buttons wouldn’t respond, others were fine. I rebooted and all was well again. But definitely had me scratching my head.
My fm9 chain has comp, drive, amp, cab, rotary, Trem, plex, filter, two reverb blocks, two delay blocks, and a vol block. Verbs all hi res, same w stereo cabs. I’m 72-76% depending on my channels.