KVR Audio

Jason Brian Merrill · Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:21 am

my friend just got a dual core AMD 4400 -- I was wondering what hosts are compatibile (i.e. make use of both cores -- in some way or the other) --

I know FLstudio has seperate threads for the GUI and the engine, and will also have one for disk streaming in the future -- but what about other programs? and how does it work (just distributes CPU evenly, puts VST effects on one thread and audio tracks on another, etc.) Im wondering what host I should migrate to, if I need to move at all.

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:58 am

Reaper, at http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php advertises as being SMP capable. Afraid I don't know any more details about it, though. Y'all might want to try loading it and see what happens.....

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:58 am

Sonar 5, Cubase SX, Nuendo for sure do. They don't 'split evenly' though, its each instance of a plugin goes to a different core. (IE one instance of z3ta+ will be on one core. Load in another instance, it's on the other core, without any work from you.)

Devon

christianmusicmaker · Post by **christianmusicmaker** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:21 am

As said above Sonar5, ACID 6 and Podium (supports up to 32 processors).

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:33 am

Music Creator 3 (29€ for the downloadable version) uses both core of my AMD X2 3800+.
And is impressive for the price by the way...

inkinen · Post by **inkinen** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:02 pm

i believe energyXT has multiple core support. it can also be run as a plugin in another host giving multiple core support to its host.

http://www.xt-hq.com

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:00 pm

Podium (www.zynewave.com) does, and I believe that NTrack (www.ntrack.com) does as well.

HTH
DSP

xylyx · Post by **xylyx** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:27 pm

inkinen wrote:i believe energyXT has multiple core support. it can also be run as a plugin in another host giving multiple core support to its host.

http://www.xt-hq.com

The only problem I have noticed with EXT (and others have reported it too), is that assigning a plugin to the second core can result in sync being lost over time, especially when looping. Apparently, the way dual core is handled has been changed in XT2, so it will hopefully be much better...

odo · Post by **odo** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:29 pm

i believe energyXT has multiple core support. it can also be run as a plugin in another host giving multiple core support to its host.

cOOL

Z3R0T0N1N · Post by **Z3R0T0N1N** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:57 pm

Podium

www.zynewave.com

edit: oops, already mentioned. sorry.

Jason Brian Merrill · Post by **Jason Brian Merrill** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:33 am

thanks, this gives me some ideas.

hellhound · Post by **hellhound** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:41 am

So is there a benifet in running dual processors with FL6? Like in regards to how many VST's i can run simultaneously

ford442 · Post by **ford442** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:16 am

what about protools??

antardhyan · Post by **antardhyan** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:01 am

Recently released Acid Pro 6 claims to support dual-core processors.

Jason Brian Merrill · Post by **Jason Brian Merrill** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:08 am

ctually, I tested samplitude and FL and although samp works better at it, they both spread out processing over both cpus.

dual core compatible hosts?