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Early versions of Sonar, and before that Pro Audio ran the audio engine on a
single thread. Getting Microsoft Office to run in multiple threads might be
easy, but getting an audio application that relies on tight timing is
another story completely.
That's why products like ProTools LE don't support a dual processor or dual
core PC. Many aspects of the application will run on multiple threads, but
the audio engine cannot cope. As mentioned, the same is true with some
audio plug-ins.
So to say that"any multithreaded software will benefit" is misleading at
best, and flat out wrong at worst regarding audio applications.
NS.
"Peter Larsen" <SPAMSHIELD_plarsen@mail.tele.dk> wrote in message
news:431B60C7.42F06C5E@mail.tele.dk...
> Neon Sound wrote:
>
>> Correct, Sonar has one of the most efficient dual proc/dual
>> core engines in the game at the moment. It scales very well
>> with processors/cores.
>
> Multiprocessing distributes processing threads, not processes,
> consequently any multithreaded software will benefit from a
> multiprocessor setup.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Larsen
>
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