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Originally Posted by joris de man  I suspect that pretty much all of TC's and UAD's plugins would run just dandy regular CPU's, if they wanted to.
Plugins that were once exclusive to DSP systems (such as the Sony Oxfords) run fine on native CPU's, and today's processors would have ample processing power to run them.
TC Powercore is a pretty regular DSP card with the same DSP's as an HD card (or was it Mix? Can't remember); the UAD card is actually a 5-6 year old graphics card modded to do DSP processing instead of GFX processing, and I don't even want to geustimate how much power they would get on today's graphics cards (Nvidia Quadro for example).
Consider that a dual core processor these days easily runs the equivelent amount of plugins that a Mixfarm can.
They won't, however, because it is against their interest. You can't suddenly start producing native plugins when for years you've claimed they can only run on your proprierty hardware.
Cheers,
Joris |
Id second that, I suspect that the number one reason a company goes that route today is to protect against piracy. There are benchmarks on the apogee site comparing a TDM based DSP card with a mac pro and the mac
kills the that card in terms of power.