User Manual

OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE
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Distortion
• The D-11 Foldback Distortion will use up less CPU power than the Scream 4 Distortion device.
Reverb
• The RV-7 uses much less power than the RV7000.
For some applications the RV-7 might do just fine, and will use up much less power.
• If you are running out of processing power, try the Low Density algorithm for the RV-7.
This uses up much less power than other algorithms.
Send Effects
• When you are using mono effects as send effects, you can connect the effect returns in mono as well (discon-
nect the cable to Aux Return Right on the Main Mixer).
This is true for the following effects:
• D-11 Distortion
• Scream 4 Distortion
• ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
• COMP-01 Compressor
• PEQ-2 Parametric EQ
• DDL-1 Delay (provided the Pan parameter is set to center position).
• MClass effects; Equalizer, Compressor, Maximizer.
RAM requirements
Songs not only use up system resources in terms of processing power and hard disk space, they also require RAM
(memory) to load at all. The amount of RAM required for loading a song, is directly proportional to the amount of sam-
ples used in the song. For example, a song which uses only Subtractors and effects requires very little RAM.
If you are running out of RAM try the following:
• Close other Song documents.
All open songs compete for RAM.
• Terminate other applications.
All running applications compete for the RAM available in the computer.
• Use mono samples instead of stereo ones.
Mono samples require half the amount of RAM.
• Try sample rate converting sample files to a lower sample rate.
Note that this could affect sound quality negatively. Also note that it will require an external sample editor with
good sample rate conversion facilities.