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Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:34 am

holy shit bduffy.

share that preset. now!

is that a clean DI guitar to the plugin and nothing else? or did you feed it to an amp sim?

bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:56 pm

stefancrs wrote:Could someone who had denormal issues (CPU build-up when idling, IE, playing silence) or loading issues try this version out?
EQ020

EQ020 loaded fine for me. The CPU build-up still occurs, but in a different way. I can see the build-up occur, then it drops back down after hitting a certain point.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:09 pm

bobsled wrote:
stefancrs wrote:Could someone who had denormal issues (CPU build-up when idling, IE, playing silence) or loading issues try this version out?
EQ020
EQ020 loaded fine for me. The CPU build-up still occurs, but in a different way. I can see the build-up occur, then it drops back down after hitting a certain point.

Thanks, I probably know what's causing it!

SongMonkey · Post by **SongMonkey** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:26 pm

Hello again, Stefan,

Well, I'll describe the symptoms and you can decide what it is.

Using Cubase SX3 on a P4 3ghz (XP SP2), and only when I load enough instances so the CPU is up around 80 or 90 percent, the plug does, alas, do the thing where it peaks out the CPU when there's no audio being passed. Then when I start the music it drops by a significant percentage, 20 or 30 percent.

stefancrs wrote:....I'll work some on getting general CPU usage down, should be possible to get it to about half of what it is now.

That would be absolutely awesome! Just don't sacrifice any of that great sound.

stefancrs wrote: May I ask what kind of sounds and music you've been trying it out on?

Just strange sort of indie rock. But it does mean that I'm trying out your eq monster on everything from bass and snare and kick to vox and horns.

It has a real "vibe" about it. It's not "clean," but it's dirty and funky in a very cool way. The adjustable distortion knob is critically important. (By the way, you might bring down the output on that second preset -- I always have to turn the plugin off and then turn down the output and the distortion just a bit, before I turn it back on, in order for it not to blow out my speakers).

Sometimes it's not right for a track, but more often it is. Great work.

Cheers.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:31 pm

You get the same CPU issues (those 80-90 percent when no audio is passing through) with the 020 version I posted on page 21?

Will bring down the volume on the preset, promise

Thanks to all of you for your help so far with this!

SongMonkey · Post by **SongMonkey** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:34 pm

Yes, latest version. I'll send you a PM so you can email me if you want me to do more specific tests.

Cheers.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:19 pm

Kingston wrote:holy shit bduffy.

share that preset. now!

is that a clean DI guitar to the plugin and nothing else? or did you feed it to an amp sim?

Ha ha ha! Yeah, I flipped out when I discovered this! That is just the plugin with a token delay and verb; It's like a Wah combined with a theramin! With the feedback all the way up, it'll emit a kind of sine wave and you can just sweep through and make crazy sounds, too. I have the preset at home, unfortunately, but I think it should be easy to recreate: go to preset #2, lower the feedback to about 80-90%, grab the middle spline and go! I think that's all I did.

stefancrs wrote:What a great recording, it sounds _really_ cool! Any extra effects apart from delay/reverb used here?

50%? Whoa, that's high. What do you get when not doing any automation? Automation CPU can be reduced, and so can processing CPU. Not sure how much the automation CPU can be lowered though, will have to investigate this when all issues have been resolved.

Like I said, that's just your EQ20 plugin. I seem to recall that the CPU was at about 10% when not sweeping the node, but it shot up when I was doing the sweeping, then blasted out of the park with automation.

Sounds freakin' awesome, though. That is getting used instead of a wah on my next solo.

cheul · Post by **cheul** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:38 pm

And that is why mp3 demos are worth a lot around here. Thanks bduffy.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:43 pm

cheul wrote:And that is why mp3 demos are worth a lot around here. Thanks bduffy.

Hey, no problem; literally my pleasure! I love hearing samples - what could be better?

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:45 pm

Damn! That sounds AWESOME! Nice work bduffy! EDIT: and stefan too of course!

Cheers!
bManic

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:10 pm

Thanks, wow! Stefan, I think you got a hit on your hands here! I'm going to see what this MF can do to a synthlead...

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:22 am

Awesome! Thanks

Will work on optimizing automation for the next release (and lower the volume of preset 2....

)

If you got the time and will to do so, could you check it out if it can do chuggah-chuggah stuff to a clean DI guitar as well? That'd be great!

Cheers!

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:25 am

stefancrs wrote:Awesome! Thanks
Will work on optimizing automation for the next release (and lower the volume of preset 2.... )

If you got the time and will to do so, could you check it out if it can do chuggah-chuggah stuff to a clean DI guitar as well? That'd be great!

Cheers!

Yeah, I'd be happy to. Chug = good.

Here's the preset I used for the solo, for Kingston and any who are interested: stefancrs_Patch.fxp

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:46 pm

thanks bduffy.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:01 pm

Hee hee. Post something if you makea cool sound!

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