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However, it would break again after playing the project once or twice. I could get the DSK FX back to normal by restarting Reaper, or by removing the instrument from the track's FX assignment and re-inserting it. When the project is working correctly, DSK FX come up with their normal fancy faceplates. They'd just show a bunch of identical gray sliders in a column, with no graphics, labels, or legends. Looking at the FX settings on the individual tracks, I found that when the project was locked up, the FX faceplates would open as blank pop-ups when I opened them. However, I noticed that the load on each FX dropped to zero when the project was running but silent.
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When playing, the Performance Meter was showing 6 DSK instruments (FX) using from 2 -8% each, for a total CPU load around 25%. The run time would still advance, but no sound and nothing on the level meters. My daughter complained that her small reaper project would frequently stop playing. I have some rudimentary Reaper experience, but all of that was mixing audio tracks, I'm new to the whole in-the-box instruments thing. She's a good pianist but totally new to recording. She's a teenager, writing some orchestral music in the vein of video game or anime themes. ( Here's the old thread, but it's largely redundant with this one at this point.) I'm starting a new thread here after realizing my daughter's drop-outs are not from a lack of computer horsepower, they seem to be caused by problems between Reaper and her DSK VST instrument plugins.