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What Determines Plug-in Napping?

cpsmusic

New member
Hi All,

I've started working on some larger projects and have been using the plug-in nap feature which helps my struggling Mac Mini cope with the heavy CPU loads.

For the last project I used UA's 610 preamp which I rendered. This plug-in (along with others like H-Delay and many others) generates considerable noise. I was thinking that this noise might affect how plug-in nap works, that is, that S1 might think the noise is audio (which of course it is!) and process it, stopping the nap function from working.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows how the "nap" state is determined? Is it set by the presence of audio? Is there a gate threshold of some sort? Or does it depend on whether there's an Event under the playback cursor? I checked the manual and couldn't find anything about this.

Cheers!
 
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To my knowledge it depends on audio streaming through the plugin above a threshold or audio being generated by the plugin.
The Threshold seems to be below 24 Bit Dither Noise.
Some plugins just don't have a nap option for some reason. ..also there is no nap when gui of a plugin is open.
 
At risk of stating the obvious plugin nap is supported by VST 3 only (I believe).
 
Plugin Nap is supported by VST2 as well.

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The Threshold is at -160dBFS.
 
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