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Every so often, I'll insert it, and then DP starts behaving as if my CPU is absolutely slammed, although it's not. Basically, the mixer lights stop bouncing, transport time displays stop counting, and playback cursor scrolling stops.
If i click on any of the above, like a mixer fader, the meters will start bouncing again, until i let it go. it just suddenly goes like that, but never returns to behaving correctly, even though cpu's at around 25% per core.
restarting dp seems to cure the issue. it doesn't happen every time, but frequently enough to be a bother.
has anyone else had similar trouble?
thanks!

Hi Kelldammit,

Yes, I noticed the same issue. Exactly what you described.
It looks like a bug already occurring in the previous version...
As I don't use Live Room, I have never contacted tech support about it.
Besides, yes, LiveRoom is really heavy on the CPU.

No proof, but I suspect it's a DP issue rather than a CPU issue many times. I can compare activity monitor versus DP headroom metering and find DP slammed, but activity monitor showing lots of system headroom.

A few days back I set up a guitar channel strip with Analog Chorus, RenComp, ACE30 and LiveRoomG to try to get a specific sound. This was with audio monitoring on. It worked fine rehearsing along with some bass and drums in MachFive, but when I put this channel strip into record status, the guitar sound broke up like it might when there is CPU overload.

Does this sound like the same problem? It seemed fine before I clicked the Record button. I didn't necessarily think it was the LiveRoomG plugin, but I guess it could be.

Did a little more digging this evening. It appears that changing the amp setup (custom'59) or sometimes, the cabinet type in LiveRoomG will trip it off.
Sometimes (but not always), changing one of these settings will cause a cpu peak. The cpu quickly returns to normal levels, but the gui stops at that point. Interestingly, if you click on a fader, you'll see the mixer leds and counter come to life again, until you release the mouse button.
Saving and closing the song doesn't cure it. You have to close DP altogether, and re-open, at which point, everything works fine again, with the amps/custom settings in place.

cheers

kell

I experienced this issue as well, Bayswater.
I prepare a set up with LiveRoom included, when I start to play : a big and scary "POP!" comes out of my monitors and then the audio track is completely silent. I found that adjusting the buffer size solves the problem...

Have you guys on Mac OS ever faced the GUI freezing issue, kelldammit spoke about?

It was not a buffer size problem in my case.

As for GUIs freezing, I've had it happen on a few VST plugins, never AU or MAS.

I posted this exact same behavior back in July of this year, after spending a considerable amount of time with MOTU tech support. The problem for me occurs with ALL the LiveRoom plugins. This is how I described it to MOTU support:

"Inserting any of the LiveRoom plugins to a track causes all the displayed animations (counters, meters,etc) to freeze. If I click and hold the mouse on a fader animations resume, let up and it stops. The audio still plays and all of the Liveroom features work, I can add cabinets, mics, change levels, but it only takes a short amount of time before the display freezes. The fix is to save the session, close and restart DP8. If I leave live room running in the background, and don't open it everything works ok."

MOTU suggested I R&R DP8, I did with same results, even after latest upgrade. Please report your issues to MOTU tech support so that they can take another look at it. Sounds like many others are having similar issues.

Reported on my TechLinks...hopefully i hear something back soon.

Thanks!