EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Pretty good breakdown by good ol' Linus. Some excellent points on cooling and PCIe expansion slots depending on how you configure the machine.
Harmonia is basically unison, multiplies the voices played and you can offset parameters between them. That was in the old one IIRC as well. It's basically stacking voices, so the whole voice is duplicated, and with it, CPU load as well.
That explains it.
Okay, just because I have no life I set up a sequence in Logic: eight instances of Omnisphere, loaded random patches, turned on Harmonia on one of the voices, added a Pro Reverb and a Spring Reverb to both A and B (in addition to what was already there). Then I drew in some MIDI notes and copied the track to each of the Omnispheres.
That's a ludicrous amount of Omnisphere for a human.
So why is my machine laughing at me?
Should've loaded multis for starters
By the way, when I said I turned on Harmonia for one of the voices, I meant one of the layers.
As far as I can see there aren't any multis with the original Omnisphere. I didn't find One Finger Wonders.
In any case, I do believe you that you can break a 12-core 5,1 if you really try. I could also run out of memory if I loaded every mic position of every single Hollywood Strings articulation (in addition to everything else in my big template).
But to use the obligatory car analogy, if your car cruises at over 100 MPH fully loaded with five passengers and all their heavy luggage without breaking a sweat, and it can hit a top speed of 150 MPH - i.e. it has no problems performing much harder than you'll ever push it on actual roads - does it make sense to worry about the size of its engine compared to a new one?
Or something like that.
Some people like computer specs for their own sake, and I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
My point is that mortal musicians are unlikely to run out of computer resources on even a $1400 10-year-old machine (albeit one that's been upgraded with faster processors, more memory, and SSDs on a SATA 2 bus). And if they do, a cheap 10-year-old sample slave can handle the overflow.
I bring my 2012 iMac i7 3.46ghz to its knees so much, I'm using Vienna Enseble Pro on anything that's even vaguely taxing. Poor thing has been begging to be put out to pasture for a while now, and now that the Mac Pro mystery has been revealed it may soon get its wish. (not with a $6k mac)
My point is that mortal musicians are unlikely to run out of computer resources on even a $1400 10-year-old machine (albeit one that's been upgraded with faster processors, more memory, and SSDs on a SATA 2 bus). And if they do, a cheap 10-year-old sample slave can handle the overflow.
Can you post a picture of a session that does that?
I’m quite serious when I say that I don’t even think about the computer - I just use it.
Yeah but if you want to work at low buffers it's a different story. Especially once you've got a bit of processing going on.
Sure! I'll dig some up. I think it's generally single core spikes that do it, from heavily scripted kontakt instruments, etc. Will put a few up here....
They've been doing this kind of thing for decades so it shouldn't surprise me, but still it disgusts me.
and I can't imagine the hardware has anything to do with it.