CPU (RTAS) Meter

[yarrick19]

When looking at the CPU (RTAS) meter I'm seeing a solid section of bars followed by blank space and then another single bar farther out (kinda like the picture I've drawn below). The number listed to the right of the graph seems to coorespond with the end point of the solid bars.

CPU (RTAS) [||||||||_______|______________ ] 25%

What is the single bar after the blank space telling me? Does that indicate some sort of CPU spike/peak? I noticed that I tend to see this with certain plugs, such as TL Space, at lower buffer settings.

In fact, if that single bar gets near the end of the graph I start to get distortion during playback in my sessions - even if the number listed to the right of the graph only says 45%. This is a little odd, as I've never experienced this in earlier versions of PT. In PT7 and 8, if too much CPU was being used it would just throw up an error but never heard any distortion. Of course, increasing the number of host CPUs or increasing the buffer size reduces the CPU usage and the distortion disappears. Has anyone else experienced this?

[yarrick19]

bump

[Keybeeetsss]

Yes its spikes.. TL Space is known for that.. Not much u can do except what ur doin... thatz probly why u got no answer out of 91 view & had to bump

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[yarrick19]

Right - I knew TL Space was a CPU hog. Are others experiencing the playback distortion I mentioned in the scenario above?

[Bob L]

Do you have "Ignore RTAS errors during playback " enabled in prefs?

[mykhal c]

Originally Posted by yarrick19

In fact, if that single bar gets near the end of the graph I start to get distortion during playback in my sessions - even if the number listed to the right of the graph only says 45%. This is a little odd, as I've never experienced this in earlier versions of PT. In PT7 and 8, if too much CPU was being used it would just throw up an error but never heard any distortion. Of course, increasing the number of host CPUs or increasing the buffer size reduces the CPU usage and the distortion disappears. Has anyone else experienced this?

Originally Posted by yarrick19

Right - I knew TL Space was a CPU hog. Are others experiencing the playback distortion I mentioned in the scenario above?

yes, your scenario is not uncommon. my own testin' has yielded very similar results. seems as tho they rewrote part of the error messaging or at least changed the values for kickin' out the errors. so yes denormalization will definitely show itself, in some cases, before an error. FWIW i have reported this as a bug to Avid