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by squeaky-clean 934 days ago
> 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