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  • Mac Pro slave cores vs latency question?

    Hi, I've seen this speculated on other forums (but not recently) that having more cores can introduce more latency. Can someone please tell me if this is this true. Right now I'm running a moderate - large size template in DP8 on a 12-core 2.66 hosting all v.i.'s in VEPro on the same machine. I don't load any instruments in DP8. Only plugins, but they are CPU intensive and are starting to cause a strain so I'm looking to add a Mac slave. No PC for me - I don't want to deal with another OS. Being a percussionist, keeping the latency as low as possible is important to me. I do use the latest version of LASS with the A.R.C., so that adds to the processing/latency equation. Of course I would look to get as fast a processor as I could reasonably afford, but would getting more cores create diminishing returns in latency? Forgive me if this question has already been answered somewhere - I looked, but didn't find it. Many thanks for your help.

  • I really doubt it. If you assign more cores than your total logical cores, you'll run into stability troubles probably but VE Pro will use a few cores pretty well and not using enough is going to mean needing more latency rather than the other way around in normal use. I don't think 12 cores is as meaningful directly per VE Pro as one might hope, though. I think the intended application is more video rendering and science/heavy maths.