ProChannel Tape Sim causing hiss even with playback stopped. Is this normal?

EDIT: I'm an idiot. It was the noise knob. Please disregard. lol
 
So I've finally found some time to start poking around at my work in progress and noticed a hiss even with playback stopped. I did some hunting around for the culprit (turned off any armed tracks, input echo, a/b'd various PC power buttons on busses, etc). Turns out it was coming from the instance of the new Tape Sim I had inserted to my drum bus. It is definitely making the drums sound pretty awesome but I find it odd that it is creating hiss even with playback stopped and no live signal feeding it.
 
Is this to be expected? If so I'm a little concerned because although the sim sounds great it's an awful lot of hiss for one instance (especially with no playback). It may be possible other effects are contributing but the hiss disappears immediately when disabling the TS.
 
Just trying to get an idea of what I'm dealing with here. I recall the old Cakewalk plugin tape sim had a hiss/noise control that would add hiss as desired. Perhaps there is a similar control where I can remove the hiss without removing the awesome sauce with the PC version.
 
Cheers and thanks.

Thanks. I'll check that out. I currently have the knobs linked because I thought it was a effect vs. output gain type leveling going on but perhaps I should look at other ways to control the resulting level or something.
 
I still find it odd to be getting that much noise with playback stopped. I thought effects more or less stopped working when stopped unless echo was engaged. Even the high gain guit sims don't make any noise but I guess that might be because of the internal gate.
 
I need to ask though... was this a problem BEFORE X3e? I'm on the e patch but perhaps something went wonky somewhere with the update.

Any chance echo input is on for that channel and you're picking up something external?

Okay... I'm a complete and utter dumbass. As scook pointed out there is a huge "Noise" knob. I had forgotten how to work the bloody plug and didn't even look at it so thought it was one of the linkable knobs. Turning down the big arsed knob that is plainly labeled "Noise" did indeed somehow magically reduce the noise. Imagine that. lulz
 
This is what happens when I stay away from the DAW for so long and jump back in thinking I know it all. D'oh. Sorry guys.

The silly thing is scook nailed it and I kept spinning my wheels unnecessarily.
 
And by "silly" I mean "derpy".
 
lulz
 
I'll get my head back in the game. I promise.

I'm not sure why I even had it turned up (it was at about 2 o'clock which I'm assuming isn't the default). I thought maybe I had set it like that because it sounded better during my initial tests but there doesn't seem to be any change in the actual quality of the drum sound. In fact you can't hear it at all in the mix... but I know it's there adding unwanted muck. It's turned down now.
 
The effect itself though... wow. What an awesome improvement to my drum sound with next to zero fiddling. Sooooo glad they included it. Thanks, Cake.

Reminds me of the time I couldn't work out where the hiss was coming from until I realized it was the Waves analog plugs I had inserted. Never really understood the point of including the hiss in an analog emulation. Does it add "air" or something? LOL!

Beepster
Some kind of turntable emu would probably be more effective.

That would be the vinyl.sfz in DimPro.

Either way but using DimPro and Rapture as effects does not meaning dropping them in the FX bin but dropping the track into the synth. There are synths which provide a separate FX dll like Z3TA+ classic or process audio directly like Pentagon I.

You can use the Sonitus surround panner to do serious warpage and even "scratching"-type processing. However, note that using it in this manner may be illegal in some states.

There are plenty of vinylizer VST's out there - iZotope's is a good one, and it's free: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/effects-instruments/vinyl/
 
Sometimes I'll just turn off all of the vinyl noise settings - scratches, dust, electrical hum etc - and use the "year" dial to get that vintage lo-fi tone. It works great. 

+1 for Vinyl - it's great at giving everything that straight from vinyl sound, with a decent amount of control.  
 
Funny.... Vinyl is how I first got on board with Ozone at v1.