KVR Audio

jivamukti · Post by **jivamukti** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:35 pm

Is it possible to use Rewire as a workaround for hosts that don't support dualcore processors? If you could get the Rewire slave running on the one core and the master on the other, it'd be possible to divide the CPU load.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:04 pm

yes - I do that with Reason & Ableton Live, assign one affinity to core0 & the other to core1.
Works fine.

jivamukti · Post by **jivamukti** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:09 pm

Cool! You do that in Windows Task Manager? Is the performance increase from a singlecore CPU using this workaround as big as using a host that directly supports multicore CPUs?

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:15 pm

yes ctrl+alt+del > processes tab > right click on the process (e.g. Reason 3.04) > set affinity.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:19 pm

there's an application called taskassign from www.tomshardware.com that also allows you to save the assignments.
Dunno how huge the performance increase is - but it appears to be significant.
I tried maxing out reason on one core, whilst rewired into Live & blasting through a load of effects - hardly a ripple

jivamukti · Post by **jivamukti** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:34 am

Many thanks for your help. That is a decent erzats till Live 6 with direct support comes out. Now I have a terrible dualcore fever.

Rewire as workaround for hosts that don't support dualcores