[PlanetCCRMA] System Requirements For Good Performance?

[joey.a]

Hi

I used to be actively engaged in computer music research in the late 70's early 80's,  when dedicated hardware was the only way to synthesise computer music in real time.

I am planning to get back into this area now, and would have thought that real time synthesis should now also be possible with purely software synthesis modules, in view of the subsequent improvements in computer speeds.

Consequently, I was wondering if anyone could give me a rough indication of how many voices can be synthesised in real time using the now available software, run on, say, a 1.8 GHz Celeron processor (in a new system).

Would I be correct in assuming that it is, as yet, too early to fully exploit the potential  of top of the range multi-core processors, because the associated threading driver software has not yet been written? (If purchasing a more expensive processor is going to make a substantial difference to me in this application, I would, of course, do so.)


Sincerely


James Harris
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