It's
clocked at 3,400 times the speed, and is probably pushing over
10,000 times as many instructions. Surely it can sequence a semiquaver
roll without it sounding like turnips being tipped off a truck?
completely irrelevant if the CPU has masked interrupts or is stuck on
a kernel lock before moving on to handle the next MIDI note or decides
to schedule something other than your MIDI thread for one reason or
another.
But has anyone done some true blind tests? I always find these claims
about 'stuff from the older days' being better a little non-scientific
and somewhat 'nostalgia-driven' - nb. nothing bad about nostalgia :)
Also the test should probably keep in mind the overall sound-production
chain: the original article doesn't mention 'what' is producing the
sound driven by midi, probably some external midi synth/module? In this
case means the computer is only computing midi, which may be different
from running a sequencer *and* softsynth(s) (like a Gb soundfont etc.)
on the same machine...
Lorenzo