Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:56 am
Hauptwerk uses the additional cores in real time playing, not just loading. I replaced an old, relatively slow, 8 core Xeon, whose hard drive failed, with a current 4 core i7 last year. Playing full organ on Caen surround or Doesburg puts the cpu meter in the red on the new machine. I had to cut polyphony quite a lot to make it work on 4 cores, and am not happy with the sound. So I would buy 6 cores if I had the option.
I even tried to resurrect my old Xeon with new SSDs, but the reinstalled Windows 7 won't recognize the touchscreen monitor that it worked with for 4 years before. And then I found out only some Xeon processors support Windows 10, not mine... Gah.
If you are avoiding medium-to-large samplesets, 4 cores may be okay.