All of the sudden (no problem before) I'm getting distortion on any trac I use Perfect Space. What might be happening?

Has anythig changed before the problem started?
 
Are you using any different effects, buffer/driver settings, anything?  Is the project bigger than any before?
 
Perfect Space is very CPU intensive, as it's a convolution reverb.
 
Does it happen on older projects, where it worked before?

Are you sure it's distortion, as opposed to dropouts?

Maybe it loaded a distortion impulse file? 


It could also be that its getting too much input.

It does not happen in an older file. Also, I started a new project and reloaded all tracks and the problem still happened with "Perfect Space". The only thing that I can think of that I changed, was the Buffer, to get rid of delay in a track that I was recording. It sounds like distortion to me, not drop out. I just checked these responses in my email. I will experiment with the buffer when I get home. Thanks for your help.

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It does not happen in an older file. Also, I started a new project and reloaded all tracks and the problem still happened with "Perfect Space". The only thing that I can think of that I changed, was the Buffer, to get rid of delay in a track that I was recording. It sounds like distortion to me, not drop out. I just checked these responses in my email. I will experiment with the buffer when I get home. Thanks for your help.

There's your sound card buffers, and there are also buffers in Perfect Space.


I try to set them to match ... don't know why I do that, but it seem to work.


If my CPU usage is low, I have no trouble running it at 128 and my sound card at 128.


EDIT: If you have a some heavy CPU usage things such as Guitar Rig, TH2, a Dynamic EQ, any of the 64 Series Cakewalk plug-in's ... you'll probably have to freeze the tracks they are on ... unless of course you have them on a bus. Then you're sunk.

Dropouts can sound like severe distortion. You can easily determine if the problem is due to interruptions in the data stream (dropouts) by exporting the mix (preferably with a slow bounce) and then listening to the exported file. If the distortion is gone, then it was indeed dropouts and you need to adjust your buffers upward.

I'm with bitflipper on this one - dropouts can sound like distortion.
 
The delay in the track you were recording may have been caused by a look ahead effect or a cpu hungry one.
 
Did you have the PC concrete Limiter, LP-64 EQ, LP-64 Multiband or perfect space running when you tracked? If so, it is better to disable until mixing.
 
Don't track through Perfect Space, use another reverb that is not convolution, like Breverb, Pantheon or Sonitus, then replace it with PS when you're done tracking, and increase your buffer size.