12.8.3 Distortion

[jre3132]

I've seen this problem on other versions, but didn't find anything when I searched for the new version. Anybody else having soft distortion when the master/sub levels get near the top? Around -4 and up. I've pulled up some sessions that were fine in previous versions with an L2, L3, and ML1 on the master with the ceiling usually set to -0.2 (one on each sessions, not all on one...) and it sounds like I'm overloading everything. This is driving me crazy...is there a fix or should I just revert back?

I'm also getting an AAE -9172 error saying Audio processing could not complete due to conflicts with other CPU tasks or a potential clocking issue. I haven't really had this error before. I found some suggestions online about changing the hardware buffer size or limit plugin use (yeah right).