On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 18:17, Jan Depner wrote: > Have you used the HDEQ yet? I actually use the background spectrum to > figure out where to do very small boosts and cuts. Also, by the time > you're mastering you shouldn't really be doing anything else that > requires a lot of CPU power. I normally run Ardour->JAMin->Ardour when > I master and I get about 45% CPU usage on my Athlon 1700+. > > Jan Yes, I have used it, and it's very nice. It feels *good*, you know, when I'm listening and changing things a bit. I guess my thought was that, assuming I understand the architecture of the program, it's acting as a visual front end to the 32 channel EQ. If there were simply fewer channels in the EQ then wouldn't thee be lower CPU usage? - Mark