Ok, I've seen strange things in the Final Clipper output - but I'm not going to fix it now because I'm working on much bigger GUI changes....

(Will take some time, but I've finally started with a parameter interface code redesign, GUI redesign will be next!).
About the silence issue: Are you sure that none of the cores in your system peaks, and the CPU load doesn't increase, in this situation? I have noticed before that in case of
absolute silence the CPU load can go up a lot.
Side note that in a much earlier release, I observed that the CPU load would increase if only 1 channel of ST had audio present. Attempts to duplicate that in recent versions didn't exhibit that behavior.