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I have a few questions regarding multicore support on Windows 64 bit.

1. How many cores and cpu's does ableton live 9 support?

2. How does it assign load to the cores? completely dynamic? 1 core per track? or?

(2.5 Is ableton still behind in this area? Ive been told Reaper is the only daw that currently takes full advantage of all available hardware in an efficient manner? could that be true?)

3. Xeon vs i7? how does this affect number of vst's

4. Basically what would currently be the choice of hardware
if you wanted for most amount of tracks and vst's running at the same time in ableton 9?

1.- As many physical cores as you have, it doesn't use virtual cores, no DAW does it.

2.- One track in one core.

3.- The faster better, but you can build computers with two xeons.

4.- Depends, which vst's? If you use sample libraries get more ram 8- 16 gigas. THen It's really simple: DSP consumes cpu power, get the most cpu power you can afford.

An i7 is plenty of power but of course there are tons of plug ins that are very cpu hungry and will bring any system to it's knees. Freeze and bounce are your friends.

Talking about 9 is prohibited here....

No DAW supports virtual cores!?

Logic does.