I've been experiencing odd performance behavior with DP lately... even since before the DP 9.1 and 9.12 updates.
Sometimes when I'm busy with a project the Processing PEAK LED will light up and stay lit. The Processing LEVEL indicator shows 'normal' behavior, and DP is playing/recording fine, with all the track level meters showing activity. Only problem is, there is NO audio coming from my MOTU 2408mk3 when the Peak LED lights up. It's almost like the audio gets 'muted' but there is still audio activity on the tracks and master output on DP's mixing desk.
It's not the sound card - when I preview audio files from MAC finder it plays back fine. So the audio interface isn't dead.
According to my processor monitoring software running in the background, there is very little processor usage... 7% when DP is in stop mode. But the PEAK LED indicator stays lit.
The other odd thing is, sometimes, if I just leave DP for a while, the LED goes out and audio returns back to normal by itself. Sometimes not, and I have to restart/reload...
I'm in the middle of exporting backing tracks for an artist, so I'm loading up the songs with all the tracks and plugins and VI's etc. So for example, when I load the third song, the Processor PEAK LED comes on, and after the file has loaded all the instruments, it plays back fine... but no audio.
So sometimes this behavior is during the creation process of a track or cue, and sometimes while loading a project.
I don't know how to recreate the problem... it happens randomly. I'm mostly using NI Komplete Kontrol, EWQL PLAY, Stylus, Omnishpere and Nexus ReFX. I've been experimenting with switching plugins/VI's between realtime and pre-gen mode, but no success. I also noticed that I get digital 'artifacts' when I try to freeze a NI Kontakt track where the instrument is using fx (like some convolution reverb presets) that are 'synced' with DP while in Pre-Gen mode. However, I don't think this issue is related to the one I'm describing earlier, and freezing the Kontakt track while running Kontakt in Real Time sorts out the artifacts problem.
Any suggestions on how to solve the processor PEAK LED problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
