bennals Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Hi. I'm considering upgrading my e6600/Asrock Conroe board to a Q6600 and appropriate motherboard. I know there has been some doubt on various forums about the extent to which audio applications utilise the four cores on a quad so I'm wondering if anyone is running one in their hackintosh for pro-audio purposes. I run DP 5.11 but I imagine comparisons with Logic, Cubase etc. would be insightful. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers. Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 i myself have never run logic, however i've seen others running logic on 4 cores, and yes, the utilization is marginal to two cores. personally when it comes down to audio editing i get the job done in windows, using Adobe Audition..i'm most familiar with it, and its what i have a license for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 the software technology is not on the quad core level. i mean, today most of software doesn`t even get full performance of two cores... so,we need to wait at least for 2-3 years for full-4cores-supported softwares ....by my opinion. ~R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 i have logic pro running and all 4 cores a working there are no probs so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_chombee Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Ableton Live 6 can address as many cores as available on your system. Each track is being processed by a different core. I guess Logic uses a similar technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennals Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 thanks for the replies folks. Some mixed responses. I don't really doubt that I can get a stable running system with a quad-core. More concerned that the performance improvements over a standard e6600 might be marginal. Has anyone gone from an e6600 to a q6600, and if so, what performance gains did you see? mr_chombee...have you used Live on a both a dual and quad core and noticed a difference? Cheers. Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 i swiched from e6600 to q6600 under xbench no improvements, but in logic pro much more space more synths, effects and audiotracks then before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_chombee Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 mr_chombee...have you used Live on a both a dual and quad core and noticed a difference? Nope. But with Live you should get (almost) twice the performance out of a quad core than from a dual core machine - as long as no RAM and HDD peformance limits are considered. Check their forums, i.e. this thread: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71072 c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennals Posted September 1, 2007 Author Share Posted September 1, 2007 Ok. Thanks el-ray and mr_chombee. That sounds very encouraging. Cheers. Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Heya, I'm about to upgrade my system. I'm going from a so-so ProTools LE based Hackintosh to a Logic Pro system. I'm going to be running a MacBook Pro with Logic Pro using a Q6600 P35-DS3 node setup. I imagine that the performance I will get out of this setup will be around of what I get out of a PCI based ProTools HD setup I use on a G5. All audio will be tracked at 166.4KHz. Just have to settle on which firewire audio interface to use, MOTU, RME or Digidesign. Most likely to be a Digidesign 002 Rack. Should be up and running by Christmas, will be sure to let you know of the performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 latency is bad with 4 cores in cubase i switch off multicpu useage for better latency still i love my quadcore q6600 running on 3 ghz with stock aircooling its fast enough for plaing a lot of virtual instruments and effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennals Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 When you say latency is bad, do you mean that for a given project you need to set your hardware buffers higher in multiprocessor mode than not, or for the same hardware buffer setting, perceived latency is worse in multiprocessor mode? Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 wouldn't your latency come from poor audio drivers?? what sound card are you usig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 i am using FireWire Audiophile its a good card with low latency but is true that with more cores, latecy is worse.. its a given fact i am using card with cubase with lowest buffer in order to use realtime vst instuments like nexus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennals Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 el-Ray Did you find an increase in latency when playing soft-synths live when you moved from the e6600 to thq q6600? Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 If multiple cores perform worse then single ones the developers aren;t doing a very good job. Dual core has been big for at least a year and the whole of Cubase 4 was written for mutiple cores? How would an 8core xeon fare then? Is this just cubase which suffers in performance or all across the board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 no bennals i'm runnung my focusrite at second lowest latency there are no probs from the cores if anyone have probs with low latency, then it must be from bad drivers i'm member on logicuser forum and there a many studios with new mac pros no one was talking about probs with latency, so i think it is not a prob with multycores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennals Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 thanks el-ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts