Hadn't heard the Linus rant re AVX-512, but general press on it was that it was far from ready for prime time, though seemingly a good goal. Some speculation that that was the reason AMD chose to not implement it for the moment, as there is another related extended instruction set that AMD says has most of the bang for a large set of problems, without the heat penalty. Better use for the heat/power/silicon budgets. AMD may have finally felt pressured to add AVX-512 to the Zen-4 architecture, to keep "brand-marketing" parity with Intel. I certainly would recommend AVX2 capability for HW use, but I think that almost all present-day CPUs mid-range and up from either main manufacturer have it. I think AMD adopted it with the 1st-gen Ryzen.
Re: IR - I'm interpreting your comments to be that you are looking for sample-set producers to explicitly take greater advantage of HW6 Convolution Reverb. Interesting thought. Perhaps specific IR samples taken from the various microphone locations, and a matching set of IR-optimized samples? I know it has been popular of late for the producers to implement 3 or more stereo perspectives (6 or more channels per rank) with a HW mixer interface, and building-acoustics baked in to assumptions about the user-adjustable mix - pick your reverb by adjusting the perspective mix. That's what led to Alessandria being a 106GB load full out - 6 channels with extensive duration / native reverb / et al in the samples.
Would be interesting to see a "best implementation" of both approaches for perhaps two or three mid-size instruments of different character, side-by-side (each instrument presented in a best-of-breed IR based sample, and an otherwise identical best-of-breed native acoustics sample, both with perspective mixing.) Alas, this probably falls in the same category as Martin's response to a distributed HW: time/money may not be in the cards. I adore Gernot's Anloo take, and play it with his recommended IR config - and it is wonderful. But I would never be able to compare that against Augustine's Tihany or Piotr's Alessandria, both following a 6-chanel / 3 perspective / natural reverb approach. The underlying instruments are too different, and I'm guessing so are the acoustics - too many non-linear variables interacting for me to tease it apart!
Regardless, unless there is a hardware break-through for consumers, I'd hate to see otherwise desirable future sample-sets exceed the capabilities of a 128GB PC, or go beyond the capabilities of the readily available but not exotic high-end consumer CPUs of the day (for AMD, 5900/5950 class, or their equivalent successors, or Intel class equivalents). High-end Workstations and Server class CPUs are just too far off the chart for what it still essentially a consumer-tool. Just my opinion...
Thought provoking! Thanks kindly.
Re: IR - I'm interpreting your comments to be that you are looking for sample-set producers to explicitly take greater advantage of HW6 Convolution Reverb. Interesting thought. Perhaps specific IR samples taken from the various microphone locations, and a matching set of IR-optimized samples? I know it has been popular of late for the producers to implement 3 or more stereo perspectives (6 or more channels per rank) with a HW mixer interface, and building-acoustics baked in to assumptions about the user-adjustable mix - pick your reverb by adjusting the perspective mix. That's what led to Alessandria being a 106GB load full out - 6 channels with extensive duration / native reverb / et al in the samples.
Would be interesting to see a "best implementation" of both approaches for perhaps two or three mid-size instruments of different character, side-by-side (each instrument presented in a best-of-breed IR based sample, and an otherwise identical best-of-breed native acoustics sample, both with perspective mixing.) Alas, this probably falls in the same category as Martin's response to a distributed HW: time/money may not be in the cards. I adore Gernot's Anloo take, and play it with his recommended IR config - and it is wonderful. But I would never be able to compare that against Augustine's Tihany or Piotr's Alessandria, both following a 6-chanel / 3 perspective / natural reverb approach. The underlying instruments are too different, and I'm guessing so are the acoustics - too many non-linear variables interacting for me to tease it apart!
Regardless, unless there is a hardware break-through for consumers, I'd hate to see otherwise desirable future sample-sets exceed the capabilities of a 128GB PC, or go beyond the capabilities of the readily available but not exotic high-end consumer CPUs of the day (for AMD, 5900/5950 class, or their equivalent successors, or Intel class equivalents). High-end Workstations and Server class CPUs are just too far off the chart for what it still essentially a consumer-tool. Just my opinion...
Thought provoking! Thanks kindly.
Cheers, Bob