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by sayrer 929 days ago
Oh, interesting. I'd probably never use something like Nolly. So, out of my range. I do use the synth stuff, and I can get the Intel mini to like 50% with some effort, but it's never been a real problem.

The SSD matters for picking the sounds, in my experience. So you're going through listening to a bunch of drum hits, for example. If the drive is slow, this stalls.

Plus, isn't he simultaneously playing 70+ tracks with a CPU-intensive filter on each one? That's not a realistic workload.

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> Plus, isn't he simultaneously playing 70+ tracks with a CPU-intensive filter on each one? That's not a realistic workload.

I linked this in another comment, but here's a real video of a Skrillex single and it has 180 tracks loaded with plugins.

He mostly uses virtual synthesizers, but you'll notice the track is mostly composed of audio clips and not MIDI running a real synthesizer. Because he does the synthesis in a different project and renders the audio out. Because it would be impossible for a project like this to run in realtime with the synthesizers being calculated.

https://youtu.be/2dYFJdQf7rs?si=rsBc8gCtz5DQYGI9