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Latency is not related to CPU power, until the DSP load starts creeping up. For just low latency tracking, a 486 is perfectly capable.
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
Latency is not related to CPU power, until the DSP load starts creeping up. For just low latency tracking, a 486 is perfectly capable.
- tigeba 2y agoAs a practical matter, the CPU has to deal with IO as well, I don't believe any 486 systems could handle this. DSP based systems struggled a lot with IO in the late 90s until faster SATA drives became ubiquitous. Lots of them used SCSI or exotic hardware cards to deal with large track counts.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoThe first version of Ardour was written on a 25Mhz 486 and could record 24 tracks of 24bit 48kHz audio without breaking a sweat. It did have a SCSI drive, but in 1999 I did not consider that "exotic", having been using them on various Unix workstations for more than a decade before that.