Posted by: Bachus
Lets talk arranger processing power - 09/26/15 10:18 AM
Paul Drongowski aka pj is someone with lots of insight into the arranger technollogy, and many probably have visited his blog at SandSoftwareSound.net
This month he wrote about Yamahas current and future CPU lines, also indicating how expensive it is for Yamaha to build their own CPUs on SandSoftwareSound
While Yamaha is definately making steps with the upcomming instruments, its still clear that they are spending a lot of money while their technollogy is still very inferior compared to the latest ARM technollogy (phones and tablets) and Intel/amd technollogy..
Where pj indicates that the new upcomming processors can have a data troughput from flash memmory of 40 MB/s, current day SSDs in our PCs have a troughput of like 60Gb/s thats like 200 times as fast. And where an arranger can with a single intrface can have 128 voice poyphony max and not use the flash for anything else..
SSDs are so much faster then the expensive flash technollogy Yamaha is using. Stepping up to standard pc technollogy would make the instruments faster and cheaper (so far only Korg Kronos made this step) ... Where for example arrangers use 44.1, 16 bit sounds, current day audio standard is 96khz, 24bit.. And yes thats a difference you can hear if the DA converters are good enough.
I have no clue, why Yamaha, korg Italy and Roland dont make the step to the much faster and cheaper PC and tablet hardware..
This month he wrote about Yamahas current and future CPU lines, also indicating how expensive it is for Yamaha to build their own CPUs on SandSoftwareSound
While Yamaha is definately making steps with the upcomming instruments, its still clear that they are spending a lot of money while their technollogy is still very inferior compared to the latest ARM technollogy (phones and tablets) and Intel/amd technollogy..
Where pj indicates that the new upcomming processors can have a data troughput from flash memmory of 40 MB/s, current day SSDs in our PCs have a troughput of like 60Gb/s thats like 200 times as fast. And where an arranger can with a single intrface can have 128 voice poyphony max and not use the flash for anything else..
SSDs are so much faster then the expensive flash technollogy Yamaha is using. Stepping up to standard pc technollogy would make the instruments faster and cheaper (so far only Korg Kronos made this step) ... Where for example arrangers use 44.1, 16 bit sounds, current day audio standard is 96khz, 24bit.. And yes thats a difference you can hear if the DA converters are good enough.
I have no clue, why Yamaha, korg Italy and Roland dont make the step to the much faster and cheaper PC and tablet hardware..