multicore processing ?
Jan 26 2021 | 12:58 am
Hey, potentially silly and/or outdated question, but i would like to know how Max handles using mutliple cores of a computer processor today. I remember that at one point, you could only use several core sa tonce by having several separate patchers, or/and in different poly~ instances. Is it still the case nowadays ? Thanks in advance !
- Jan 28 2021 | 2:30 pmso for precisions...i want to know if a track FX rack in m4l consisting of only m4l devices would perform as well if it was all just one patch in Max, without Live ; not live devices plugged to each other, but just the max objects.
- Jan 29 2021 | 10:46 pmcan't definitely answer this but one big difference is that in max you can use the poly~ object multithreading capabilities to spread the processing over different cores. in live this will not work as the parallel attribute to poly is ignored.
- Jan 31 2021 | 7:32 pmoh, didn't know about that difference of treatment. thanks for the info ! still wish i could get more info on that topic though...
- Feb 01 2021 | 3:20 ammost VST hosts handle it as follows: when 2 plug-ins are in the same signal chain (before its routed to a bus or a master channel), they are processed on the same core (unless it is too busy already) maybe live devices are under a similar legal situation?
