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transient detail. This can be counter-acted to some degree by setting Purify below 50%. As an alternative, if this approach doesn’t work well,

try raising Purify above 50% (without using Strict mode). Yet another approach is to first Xclude all pitches that aren’t supposed to be there in

the first place, then slowly increase Electrify (a value around 70% is usually good for acoustic guitars) and adjusting Purify and setting Strict to

taste. Taking Electrify too high will give very synthetic sounding results, but if you get the balance just right, the effect should be unnoticeable

in context of a mix.

CPU Performance

If you’re getting a high CPU load using PITCHMAP, you can try the following to improve CPU performance.

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Try increasing buffer sizes in your host software to their largest values, then gradually reduce them until you find a suitable balance between

latency and CPU hit

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Try closing the GUI of any plug-in that you don’t currently need to have visual feedback on.

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Quit any open applications that are not needed.

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In Logic Pro, all processes that are fed by a live source are processed on on CPU core. When using PITCHMAP under MIDI control, this means

that all down-stream plug-ins are run on the same core as PITCHMAP whenever its software instrument track is selected and the record

enable switch is lit. Selecting a different track in the arrange, or un-setting the record enable button allows CPU load to be spread out across

all available cores, so this may help reduce CPU load.

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Setting Electrify very low causes a higher CPU load due to more sounds being recognized, which causes the Display to render more symbols.

Keep the value of Electrify around 50% if you don’t explicitly use it for fine-tuning your sound.

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