Subject:Sound Forge 6.0 multi-processor support

Posted by: tbirds

Date:7/28/2002 9:05:45 PM

Can anyone tell me if Sound Forge 6.0 supports SMP

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 6.0 multi-processor support

Reply by: RikTheRik

Date:7/29/2002 3:41:46 AM

I would bet that yes but most plug-ins cannot use two processors capabilities.
So you can have improvements about file opening and maybe processing multiple files simultaneously but not plug-in processing :(

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 6.0 multi-processor support

Reply by: Ted_H

Date:7/29/2002 2:14:51 PM

Sound Forge does not support multiple processors. There isn't really a need to since you would only ever be working on one file at a time.

Ted

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 6.0 multi-processor support

Reply by: Sonic

Date:7/31/2002 3:18:03 PM

Actually, that was only true for Sound Forge 5.0 and earlier.

Sound Forge 6.0 uses an additional thread for most processes (hence, background processing and rendering is possible), so multiple processors will alleviate context switching and help performance in that case. We just don't schedule anything explicitly (Windows can do a better job in most cases).

Very few DirectX plug-ins themselves attempt to launch multiple threads, but it isn't unheard of.