Hello,
I'm helping develop an installation using pd (linux). We are quite poor, but still manage to have the choice between using a single celeron 533 MHz processor, or a SMP system with two celerons running at 523 MHz.
There are four cheap sound cards in this system to give us eight outputs.
I think these must all take their input from one pd, as we need to
smoothly move between them.
The question is this:
Is there a good way to take advantage of both processors in the SMP configuration (and would this provide a significant performance gain over a single processor)?
Is Open Sound Control (OSC) the only way to do this (run a pd on each processor, with a mixing stage in one of them, and OSC providing the pipe)? Does anyone know if the overhead associated with OSC would make this a bad idea? Anything better? Any simple solutions?
I hope some of that made sense.
Thanks!
-j