Title bar, Disable current, Resource gauges – Universal Audio Realtime Rack User Manual
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Realtime Rack Manual
Chapter 5: UAD Meter & Control Panel
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Normal – In normal mode, the window can be covered by windows of the foreground ap-
plication.
Always On Top – When in Always on top mode, the Meter window always “floats” on top
of other windows, even when other applications are in the foreground, so you can always
see the meter and access the Disable Current button. This setting is saved when the
meter is quit.
Title Bar
The Title Bar (the strip across the top of the UAD Meter window) contains buttons to quit
the UAD Meter & Control panel application, minimize the UAD Meter window to the Mac
OS X Dock, and access the drop menu to open the UAD control panel windows.
Disable Current
This button doesn’t directly affect behavior of plug-ins running in Realtime
Rack. However, it should remain in the enabled (blue) state at all times for
normal operation.
Resource Gauges
UAD resource loads are displayed in the UAD Meter window, which are constantly updat-
ed in realtime even when the UAD Meter is not the foreground application. This allows
you to monitor UAD loads as needed, for example when deciding which UAD plug-ins to
load, based upon how much DSP is available.
The UAD resources are displayed as bar graphs and as percentages.
Tip: The UAD resource gauges are also displayed within the Realtime Rack soft-
ware application.
Averaged Loads
The load for each gauge represents the average for all UAD devices in use. For example,
if one Realtime Rack hardware unit is installed, the UAD-2 DSP load is an average of the
four SHARC DSP processors in the unit. If two units are installed, then the eight proces-
sors are averaged.
Individual Loads
The loads of individual devices in a multi-unit setup, and the individual DSP loads within
a single unit) can be viewed in the UAD System Information panel (
).
DSP
The DSP gauges display the amount of digital signal processing resources that are being
used by Realtime Rack. DSP is the primary hardware “juice” that powers the UAD Pow-
ered Plug-Ins algorithms.
When UAD plug-ins are disabled, DSP requirements are decreased.