Subject:Dual Processor

Posted by: DCools

Date:3/26/2001 3:07:13 PM

Hi There,

I'm using W2K on a 1Ghz PIII with 256MB memory. When I put
another processor in it, does Sound Forge 5.0 and/or Vegas
Video uses the second processor also. So my question is, is
Sound Forge 5.0 dual processor aware?

Regards from a dutch guy,
Diederick F.M. Cools.

Subject:RE: Dual Processor

Reply by: Ted_H

Date:3/27/2001 10:38:53 AM

Sound Forge 5.0 will use the extra processor if necessary,
but there is no way to assign specific functions to either
processor.

Ted

Subject:RE: Dual Processor

Reply by: Mart28

Date:4/5/2001 9:23:38 PM

No, Sound Forge 5.0 is not Dual processor Aware. The
processes are all done only on 1 processor (Its easy to see
with Win2000 tasks manager). The job is not dispatched on
the 2 processors (in order to work faster), but only on
one. Windows2000 will decide on which processor the job
will run, but that is it. Sonic Foundry should optimize
Sound Forge for multi-processor, because the rest of the
pro Market is going that way. Nuendo, Cubase, Logic Audio
and Cakewalk on the sequencer side, and Wavelab on Audio
Editor side, already support Dual-processors. Why not Sound
Forge?

Best Regards,
Mart28

Subject:RE: Dual Processor

Reply by: SonyKevin

Date:4/18/2001 10:50:00 PM

Most Sonic Foundry software is designed to take tremendous
advantage of multiprocessor computers. Vegas Audio, Vegas
Video, and ACID especially benefit from multiple processors
because they can 'overlap' many operations.

However, because Sound Forge 5.0 is designed to operate on
a single clip of media at a time, there is not a
significant advantage to allowing it to use multiple
processors simultaneously.

That said, there are advantages to running Sound Forge on a
multiprocessor computer:

(1) When previewing real-time effects, the user interface
and processing portions of a plug-in can be performed by
separate processors, resulting in smoother changes when
adjusting effect parameters.

(2) If you are using other applications while Sound Forge
is running, you will see a significant boost in overall
system performance on a multiprocessor computer: Windows
2000 will schedule threads from multiple applications to
run on different processors.