Core 2 Duo 4 Gigastudio 3 Orchestra

[dawman]

I always liked the Pentium 4 Northwood and it's logic chipsets. They allowed Gigastudio 160 and Scope 3.1to work every night across the country w/o incident. I since have upgraded to GS3 Orchestra and it's large sample libraries, and excellant sounding convolution reverb that comes with the package. It is the best sounding sampler I ever had for playback of large acoustic instruments. But GS3 at 384 stereo voices w/ 96 transistional stereo voices ( note stealing algo ) and 4 instances of convolution, and 12 large libraries each on their own MIDI channels, was really pushing the CPU. It would hit 80 to 90 % on the Northwood 3.0 GHz. I then tried the same with a 3.4GHz and it lowered the CPU % down to 75 to 80 %, which was a little better.
I have since tried this same scenario w/ the E6700 CPU and was shocked at the CPU %. Granted there is a great upgrade for GS3 that allowed more memory usage, that was a seperate matter. The CPU % meter shot down to 35 to 45 % !!! Now I don't have to let off my sustain pedal when doing those great lengthy runs to the top keys for a long dynamic trill, while listening to the harmonic content sustained underneath. This is a superb audio CPU that is just now starting to be noticed. When the SSE4 optimisations come out, this quiet little bastard will steal your heart.
With my E6700 / DP965LT combo, Scope and GS3 are such a pleasure to perform with.

[jimmypage]

good cpu quality jump friends ,I have one p4 2.8 no HT from 4 years and have 0 problem,I have jump less cpu usage using live 6 istead cubase 3

sorry for my english

best regards

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[ARCADIOS]

after i used E6600 i realized how importand the cpu is.
i am looking forward for a multicore cpu