Two quick questions

MuShoo's icon

What's the best way to check if DSP is active? For instance, I want a metro that only runs while DSP is on.

Also, is there any way to find out how many cores/processor a computer has? I'm building this on an 8-core mac, it should run on a 4-core, but I'd like to be able to only allow half of my poly instances to be available when there are fewer than 4 cores.

MIB's icon

maybe something like this for your metro??

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

MuShoo's icon

Perfect, thanks!

Luke Hall's icon

Seeing as you're on a mac you can use the [shell] or [aka.shell] external to ask for information from the system profiler.

lh

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Tiago Morgado's icon

here's a patch for explaining that

Tiago Morgado's icon

2nd question - in the OS add the processor status to navigation bar and choose the option show processor palete.. this way, you should get something like this

Tiago Morgado's icon

sorry.. I sent the wrong file some minutes ago.. here goes the right one (the *.maxpat)