Would someone who uses Cubase SX and GMedia's Oddity please try this for me:

-Open Cubase's VST CPU Meter and The Oddity at the same time.

-Tweak one of The Oddity's sliders with your mouse while playing something, you may have to tweak the slider quickly.

-Now: Tell me if you get a CPU spike of 10-20% at seemingly random intervals.

I cannot figure out why this happens to me. Every other VST/VSTi works fine and The Oddity works great in every other Host. It's really driving up a wall.

I just tried this, and it happens to me too. I have a 1ghz pent. 3, and when I move the sliders CPU usage shoots all the way up to 100%

How about if you bind that same slider to your MIDI controller, hide The Oddity's GUI, and then tweak the slider using your controller? Does it still happen?

For me, it seems to be related to the GUI.

Well, at least one other person is experiencing this. So I know I'm not imagining it.

Thanks [silent]

no_barcode wrote:

How about if you bind that same slider to your MIDI controller, hide The Oddity's GUI, and then tweak the slider using your controller? Does it still happen? For me, it seems to be related to the GUI.

I tried this, and the CPU doesn't jump if I am rapidly turning knobs even with the GUI open, so it appears to just happen when the mouse is used to move the sliders.

Have you tried switching off Enhanced Mouse Mode in Setup? I was noticing some odd behaviour with oddity (and my other ohm plugs as well) and I switched this off. It seems to have helped

Thanks for your replies.

I got an email from Dave at GMedia Music. He said they have been able to replicate this problem a few times, and they'll probably start working on tweaking the mouse control routines as soon as their programmers get done with their current projects.

Until then, he suggested doing what suthnear had suggested and/or just not have the GUI open when you're playing live using a controller. He also mentioned turning "Autoload" off - but I'm not quite sure what or where that is.

I don't know what the Cubase CPU-meter is actually measuring, and how accurate it is. Does the sound drops when CPU spike occurs ? If not, it is not related to sound and isn't very important IMHO.

-- Laurent

Fire Sledge - Ohm Force wrote:

I don't know what the Cubase CPU-meter is actually measuring, and how accurate it is. Does the sound drops when CPU spike occurs ? If not, it is not related to sound and isn't very important IMHO. -- Laurent

Yes, the sound drops - for me.

I can check this out in FL later.

smart wrote:

I can check this out in FL later.

CPU seems fine in FL Studio, Orion Platinum, and Tracktion. It's one of those "Cubase things." Cubase is notorious for them...