> 64 Studio would seem like an obvious choice but because I would like > to have VST's available, I seem to recall that is a possible issue? > > Beyond that, is there any other advantage(s) to using a x64 OS other > than RAM access beyond 4gb? Is there any 32 bit OS performance > degradation when installed on a x64 machine? audio applications benefit from the increased number of available registers ... e.g. biquad filters can be computed entirely in registers without moving temporal data to the stack ... with my performance system (combination of supercollider and nova), i experienced a speedup of about 30%, when switching from an ia32 to an x86_64 system ... tim -- tim@xxxxxxxxxx http://tim.klingt.org You don't have to call it music if the term shocks you. John Cage
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