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On Thursday 04 February 2010 18:50:28 Emanuel Rumpf wrote:

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> Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ( live )...

> ...and I don't mean a one-finger melody, but a mutli-polyphonic piano

>  piece, eventually with sustain held down, which resulted in about 20 to =

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>  simultaneusly processed voices.

Yes, I have. I believe Ken Restivo, Atte Andre Jensen and many others too.
> We have dedicated hardware for graphics, why not for audio ?
There are manufacturers selling dedicated PCI-cards to do VST-plugin work a=

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free your cpu of that. But whats the purpose of running some piece of (almo=

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generic software on generic platforms, when you still need specialised=20

hardware?
Of course you can buy dedicated audio-hardware. Its called keyboards and=20

synths and mixers and effects (outboard).

But isn't it easier to have it all in software and carry it around on your=

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pc/laptop/usb-stick?
Please give us some pointers to help you improve performance on your defini=

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un-tuned and probably mis-configured system before making our work bad in=20

general.
Have fun,
Arnold
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