Just checking if there are any good tips for keeping the CPU low on the hardware.
I had a program today which kept hitting 80% CPU, which caused the info symbol to appear and things became erratic. I never saw 90% because it would spike from 80% to the warning. So I saved my program, rebooted the M+ and reloaded the program and then it was running at 60% CPU with no issues. Same content - different results, so there must be other things contributing to CPU spikes, like possibly undo history?
I booted up an empty project and then loaded my 16 groups one by one to see what their individual CPU usage was, most were 15% (on average). Of course this is no real indication, because if I added up all the CPU usage of the individual groups, it was 200%.
I also thought I might resample a bunch of my samples, once an arrangement is close to finished. Make sure I don't need Maximizer, EQ, Transient Shaper - all of which I make liberal use of, along with Reverb (but I'm not going to bake reverb into the samples!). So I loaded my project which was running at 60% and deleted a lot of plug-ins from 12 groups. This was only a 5% savings on my CPU hit, so not worth the bother of resampling samples without plug-ins.