Budy You are correct. Same on my Mac system, this same technique you describe is also a cure for the problems with the delay plugins people have described here. Obviously a problem with how system resouces are alocated in the audio engine. Yikes G4/400, 128 MB, OS 8.6, AW8, CBX-D5 on Adaptec 2906 scsi card with seagate hawk drive (for cbx only), LAP 4.1.5 PDB Budy wrote: > From: "Budy" <thirdeye@...> > > Hi All, > > I wanted to report some weird audio behaviour > > In one piece I encountered a max out of CPU power on a certain > part. The weird thing was that on that specific part there was less > audio playing than on other parts. Still the performance meter hit the > roof and CPU too slow appeared. > > After some experiments I found a solution: put a recorded silence > track (sort of dummy-track) on an on that moment inactive track > et voila: the CPU meter stays on 60% and the track plays without trouble. > > So on my system to stop playing an audio-track audio costs about 40% of CPU > power. > > WHY ?????? > > (sys: PII 333mhz. 256R,ASUS P2B-S, quantum vikingII av disc, Matrox G400 > dualhead, > Lexicon core 32 audio-card) > > Ciao > > Budy >