‘Future Releases’ are already there in this VST 2.5 VST3 TUTORiAL. as written, the new windows installer will extract only the NS synthesizers onto your PC. If you decide to upgrade to Omnisphere 2, you get the Omnisphere FREE X version as well. 2.0 with “Sugar Overdrive” – TonePrint Control Center, “Sugar Overdrive” Mode. But because software is nonreturnable, it's worthwhile checking with Spectrasonics or waiting around here for someone with a less powerful Mac to chime in and say it works fine.The setup application will guide you through each of the installation options. There is nothing magical about a '2.4 Ghz' processor that his/her 2.3 Ghz i7 won't have. Also - your three processors do have different clock speeds, so to say they have the same performance is to argue that clock speed also doesn't matter.īottom line, the OP is almost surely fine.

More cache, faster memory support, turbo boost, it all matters to some extent, but only when the CPU is the bottleneck. Surely you'll agree that the number of cores matters as well (your i7 4930k has 2 more cores than the other two). I still dispute the notion that when the CPU is the bottleneck, that clock speed is all that matters. Synths are one of the few items which can be relatively more CPU-intensive. Unfortunately that doesn't answer the question of how well it runs Omnishphere on any given task, it just tells you it's the same as any other 2.3 GHz processor.Ĭlick to expand.I mostly agree with you, in the sense that non-CPU components are usually the bottleneck for most people in their overall DAW use. So, bottom line, I think you can expect your 2.3 GHz processor to run like any other 2.3 GHz processor if your intent is to use it as a DAW. Newer processors perform better on benchmarks and processor-intensive tasks like video rendering or computational physics but provide little practical benefit for DAW use (at least not that I've seen demonstrated). The CPU contribution is affected mostly by its clock speed. But modern DAW performance doesn't really depend on processor power - DAW performance depends on the real-time performance of the system, and real-time performance is determined mostly by non-CPU components. Those processors are, what, three generations apart? And vastly different in terms of raw processing power. Click to expand.I have found that clock speed is, in fact, the dominant CPU factor in DAW performance for a well-configured machine.įor example: my i7 920, i5 2500k and i7 4930k all perform exactly the same (max number of voices, number of plug-ins, number of synths, whatever practical metric you want) when at the same clock speed.

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