Multi Core / Processor support coming to PT?

[kv331]

Has anyone read the following announcement:

http://www.digidesign.com/news/detai...63&localonly=N

"In the Avid Developer Community pavilion, Digidesign will offer a sneak peak of an upcoming version of Pro Tools software for Windows XP systems that supports Multi-Core Hyper-Threading, offering increased performance for host computer operations such as RTAS® plug-in processing."

Cool, very cool indeed Finally multi-processor support is on the way, which means more RTAS power

[Chris Cavell]

If it's anything like other platforms, the plugins themselves will have to be rewritten to take advantage of the multi-threaded support. But I honestly doubt we'll see this in Digi Pro Tools LE for some time.

[darkglass]

my understanding is pt supports dual processing which adds about 10-15 per cent increase in "power". HT support would probably be the same or maybe less... I dont know if this is the ticket. I agree with Chris... the verbage of that announcement is slight of hand IMHO.

[kv331]

To my knowledge, all PT RTAS plugins run on the same thread, so RTAS processing does NOT take advantage of multiple CPUs. Looks like that's what they will be adding.