CPU indicator on XY

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Just heard back from TE about that little computer chip symbol that flashes in the upper right of the display:

“That’s a cpu indicator: white indicated heavy load, red indicates actual overload (and you might hear notes being killed).”

So basically what we suspected, but now it’s confirmed.

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Thanks for that info.

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Anyone know why I seem to be getting this on all my user tracks? I have never seen it on the factory ones. I don’t think I’m doing anything crazy. I only using 5 tracks on this particular one.

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Does anyone know what it means when that CPU indicator, with a checkmark, displays on the project title screen? I’d think a checkmark means you are all good, but not sure why we would need an indicator to tell us that. An absence of an indicator would be best? Anyone know?

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If it’s white it means that you’re getting close to the CPU limit and might experience dropped voices. If it’s red it means you ARE losing voices due to not enough CPU. The check mark thing doesn’t mean anything.

Personally I don’t really pay too much attention to it, and instead use my ears to see if I hear note stealing. Too often it’s flashing or lit white or even red, and I don’t hear any notes being stolen.

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indeed. it’s a bit sensitive in showing the red icon but great to have that in realtime, similar to the red „M“ which will show up if you got trigs on a track but that track is muted. the way it does it is by briefly showing the mute symbol per trig and NOT just for the whole track.

basically to learn which trigs are sequenced but muted…

the CPU indicator does the same and I think at any point where’s that happening, for instance if it needs to cut the endless trail of feedback delay for different notes, it’s not audible at all because that’s normal behavior ever since (because of cpu) but now it’s indicating that with a symbol on the XY.

maybe there’s a way to study that exactly

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I’ve noticed it flashes red when there are several tracks with long delays. In this instance I don’t audibly notice note stealing (but I guess it’s cutting the tails).