1 Sep
2008
1 Sep
'08
6:59 p.m.
Hi,
I am considering to migrate my system from 32bit to 64bit.
What are Your experiences concerning 64bit for audio applications? Any issues
not yet resolved?
Anything that does not work at all?
What are the REAL advantages of 64bit vs. 32bit?
Thanks for any hint,
Crypto.
1 Sep
1 Sep
7:07 p.m.
Hi!
Advantages: You can access more memory. but I think the new kernels do ave
an option to adress memory in 64BIT, while still generally being a 32BIT
system. Maybe I got this wrong though.
What doesn't work: Prebuilt things. Like windows codecs and other
proprietary software. (reading proprietary formats with audio players, I don't
know for other wine stuff VST.
But you really need to worry about 64BIT if your processor does it and if
your memory is big enough (>4GB - am I right about this limit anyone?). Don't
ask me for harddisk limitations.
Kindest regards
Julien
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7:27 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:59:33 +0200
Crypto <crypto(a)online.de> wrote:
Hi,
I am considering to migrate my system from 32bit to 64bit.
What are Your experiences concerning 64bit for audio applications? Any issues
not yet resolved?
Anything that does not work at all?
What are the REAL advantages of 64bit vs. 32bit?
Thanks for any hint,
Crypto.
For the work I do, the issues are insignificant. My DAW is dual core
64bit and is used ONLY for music creation.
My compositions are done almost entirely with soft-synths, mostly
ZynAddSubFX. Heavy-duty number crunching like this really shows the
difference. There are voice patches I use that will barely run on a
32bit machine without pushing the processor to 100%, with only a few
notes sounding.
I know there are problems with VSTi but I don't use these at all so
it's not an issue for me. All office type work I do on a separate cheap
bog-standard machine.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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