Re: CPU Usage difference
Re: CPU Usage difference
- Subject: Re: CPU Usage difference
- From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:16:04 +0000
tahome izwah wrote:
Well, if you ask me the reviewers at "Sound on Sound" aren't exactly
known for their competence... and I would like to think that after all
those years they should be able to do better than that and provide
some hard facts when they review products, but apparently not...
"overload indicator started flashing"... how ridiculous is that.
It varies. Most reviews are done by freelancers (did one myself many
many years ago), and most are expected to concentrate on cool musical
stuff, of the "hey you can do X" and "pity you can't do Y" variety.
Readers typically don't like too much science in their reviews. Cubase5
came out extremely well overall; this panel on the reverb issue was a
small fraction of the whole. Technical stuff tends to be relegated to
sidebars in this way, but more usually to a few specialist articles by
staff members or invited experts, and here the standard is pretty high.
It has to be said though, that the implications of multi-core (in all
its many forms) for audio have barely been considered in the musical or
technical press (or academic press for that matter), and only then in
the most vague and general terms. I indeed await Snow Leopard to learn
just what it offers, but will not be able to get a good idea in the
absence of a quad or eight-core machine. Which is why, despite actively
researching the subject of concurrency for audio in various aspects, I
am myself dependent on reviewers being given express instructions to
watch that Activity Monitor and report accordingly.
Unless Apple folk here can say categorically there is a way by which a
plugin (or if necessary, a particular track) can rely on being able to
use more than one (available) core, we will be dependent on such reviews
to know a posteriori where we stand. It will definitely be an issue when
the first 16-core machines roll off the production line. That may only
be a year away.
Richard Dobson
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