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toddd_r ·
Apologies if this question has allready been answered elsewhere, but..
The fact that synthmaker needs SSE doesn't bother me personally, but do the VST's it creates also require SSE? If so I do think that is a problem, as SM is easily of a good eneough quality program for people to want to redistribute their creations as freeware, or, as I think will happen, commercially. And I think their are eneough people out their using pre-SSE machines to make this problematic. I know that SM uses the SSE instructions for better performance, but would it be possible to, for example, to have non SSE versions of the modules that use it and some kind of detector module, which would detect whether the host machine had SSE, and use this as a switch between the SSE and non-SSE modules? Just thinking aloud, it may not even be a problem for all I know, and if it is you can probably come up with something more elegant 🙂
stefan ·
the vst's do ofcourse also need sse. the vst's is basicly your schematic + synthmakers engine baked together in a dll.
the sse requirement might ofcourse change in the future though.
jorge ·
hi toddd_r
toddd_r wrote: would it be possible to, for example, to have non SSE versions of the modules that use it and some kind of detector module, which would detect whether the host machine had SSE, and use this as a switch between the SSE and non-SSE modules?
It would be possible to implement it that way, the question is how much of a priority it is. IMO our time would be better spent improving the SSE version. I dont rule out that it will be done at some stage but with time it will only get less important as computers evolve.
I'd look more to the future like creating 64 bit versions of both SM and the exported plugins, maybe a mac version etc
Feel free to disagree, I do admit that I'm not sure of how many potential SM users would be using non-SSE CPUs.
toddd_r ·
I know you can't do everything, and agree that you should concentrate on improving the SSE version, I certainly wouldn't want this version to suffer to make way for non SSE versions, it's just that as much compatability as possible would be nice (in that respect a mac version is more important). And I particulary look forward to your 64bit version (sitting infront of my new 64bit laptop 🙂 ) Is that coming out soon 😉 To be honest, I think I might have overestimated the non-SSE problem, what were the last non SSE processors? But still, it's a bit of an unknown quantity (for me anyway)
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