Good morning Listers.
I am responding to this query, even though it is slightly off topic here,
primarily because we have done some testing in our phonetics lab concerning
soft synthesizers, memory and cpu speed.
To be brief, much as we anticipated, despite the importance of having
adequate memory, normally 64 megabytes or better, the critical variable was
unquestionably cpu speed. This is understandable when considering that,
unlike hard synthesizers that are micro-processors in themselves and
function relatively independently of the main computer's CPU, soft
synthesizers rely entirely upon the processing capacity of the main
computer itself. Thus, if a memory-demanding application such as
Microsoft's Word is running, along with other smaller programs and the CPU
is running at 200 MHZ or slower, there is inadequate time for the main
processor to do justice to any of the applications up, including the soft
synth.
So, according to our tests, run on four different machines, all pentia,
running at different cpu speeds, between 133 and 450, with three soft
synths, the primary variable was unquestionably speed, the higher, the
better, of course. This is not to say that a pentium2, running at 450 MHZ,
will do justice to Eloquence or to Access32 if only 32 megs of ram are on
board, particularly if the 98 operating system is up.
Regards.
08:23 AM 6/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi list,
>Sorry if this is rehashing old news, but... When using a software
>synthesizer, such as Eloquence, what is more important for performance, a
>fast processor or lots of available ram? By performance, I mean maximal
>speed and functionality with minimal lag. Is there a significant difference
>between different models of software synthesizers
Jerry
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