Why do the TS style drives use so much CPU?

[boyce89976]

Seems like every TS style drive uses a ton of CPU. Why is that?

 

[yek]

Because it a real-time simulation. [http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/faith-restored-in-my-axe.147281/page-2#post-1740777]

https://wiki.fractalaudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Drive_block#CPU_usage

 

[boyce89976]

Because it a real-time simulation. [http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/faith-restored-in-my-axe.147281/page-2#post-1740777]

https://wiki.fractalaudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Drive_block#CPU_usage

The wiki is what lead me to ask the question. I'm currently using the Griddle Cake as a TS style drive, and was curious why the TS style drive takes so much more CPU.

 

[DLC86]

The wiki is what lead me to ask the question. I'm currently using the Griddle Cake as a TS style drive, and was curious why the TS style drive takes so much more CPU.

Because they have diode clipping and probably use this method to simulate it (which is heavier on the cpu compared to the waveshapers used on the other drive models)

 

[sparkle]

The wiki is what lead me to ask the question. I'm currently using the Griddle Cake as a TS style drive, and was curious why the TS style drive takes so much more CPU.

An option can be to use the “amp boost”
On a control switch… set tot the 808…

 

[yek]

An option can be to use the “amp boost”
On a control switch… set tot the 808…

Not the same.

http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threa...-3-02-public-beta.147926/page-11#post-1751115

 

[boyce89976]

Not the same.

http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threa...-3-02-public-beta.147926/page-11#post-1751115

The TS with the drive all the way down and volume up might be the most popular way to run it?

 

[komorebi_dayo]

the drive model is still simulating the full circuit even with drive at zero. the amp block boost is a static EQ curve which is comparably trivial computation wise

 

[Dave Merrill]

the drive model is still simulating the full circuit even with drive at zero. the amp block boost is a static EQ curve which is comparably trivial computation wise

Is it completely clean with drive all the way down?