Sunday, May 21, 2006
I've been using Synapse Orion for like six years now. Since version 2.5 or something. And now it's on version 6. It's really pretty well put together. For loop-based music stuff I haven't found anything I like better. And yet...Apparently it doesn't handle Hyper-Threading in Intel chips very well. I've been trying to remix my now 150+ pieces of Orion moodmusic music at 24/96 with better monitors, but my system can't handle the load. It should be able to, of course. It's a P4 2.8Ghz I can run all the same VSTi's and plug-ins in Cubase with no problems. But alas, it seems to be dedicating only half the CPU to Orion. Look at the Task Manager screen to the left, you'll see that the "virtual" processor on the right is getting all the load while the one on the left is untouched. Very frustrating. Suffice it to say I don't think it would handle true multiple processors any differently.
If I go into the bios and turn of Hyper-Threading it performs significantly better, though still not quite as well as Cubase with the same plug-ins.