paul tha other wrote:Music Wolf wrote:ive heard about this "dsp hungry" term thrown about on the line 6 forum and for the life of me i cant figure out what it means...how does this manifest itself? does the signal get "bity or grainy" ?
The signal quality doesn't degrade but you are limited as to how many, or which type, of effects you can use in combination.
The Helix floor has its DSP split across two paths which can be run in parallel or linked in series. Each path can support up to 8 blocks (a block being an effect or an amp sim etc). The various effects take up more or less DSP, a complex reverb or amp sim takes up much more than say a volume pedal. As you near the DSP limit so the more hungry effects become greyed out in the effects option list.
The new Poly Pitch Shift takes up about 50% of the available DSP for one path.
I play in two bands (or did when live music was a thing), one of which plays de-tuned by a semitone. It would have been nice if I could have used a pitch shift (there's a new effect called Capo) so that I could drop all my effect patches by a semitone should I want to practice something without retuning a guitar. Unfortunately it is too DSP hungry but also, having built a trimmed down patch, I don't think that it is good enough anyway.
The new Princeton amp is enough for me anyway. I now need to rebuild a couple of patches so that will keep me out of trouble for a while.
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:05 pm