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System Requirements?

Archive · 2006 4 old posts

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Tom7777 ·

Hi, what are the System Requirements for SM made plugins?

sambean ·

There's a bit on the main page about it:

SynthMaker requires a processor with SSE instructions and it runs on Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Support for SSE instructions started with the Pentium III and continued with more recent processors including recent AMDs like the Duron and Athlon XP. Almost all new processors support SSE now.

When making vst's include support for both SSE and SSE2

Sam

jorge ·

Tom7777 wrote: Hi, what are the System Requirements for SM made plugins?

Some of the requirements depend on the plugin and it's up to the plugin developer to decide the minimum requirements. Different plugins have different memory and CPU requirements.

If the plugin uses stream components ( which I think most do ), then one of the requirements is a CPU supporting SSE. SSE2 is not required although it can improve performance depending on the components and code used. They also require Windows XP or 2000 and gdiplus which is part of XP but not Windows 2000. For Windows 2000 users there is a redistributable gdiplus.dll from microsoft, they just have to copy it to their system32 folder or you can create a setup file to do it automatically. I think most Window 2000 users would most probably already have gdiplus installed although it's not guaranteed.

I suggest you have a look at SM plugins released by other developers and their requirements.

Tom7777 ·

Thanks Jorge 😀

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