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Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune by hamiltonkibbe on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:33PM (#15486793)
That's fine, but being able to run multiple audio tracks worth of VST plugins in real time on a modest laptop is very likely more valuable to their target market
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Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune by hamiltonkibbe on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:42PM (#15486862)
You'd be surprised how quickly those 500 multiply-accumulates per autocorrelation point add up... a 128-tap filter * 500MAC/point * 2 channels(stereo) * 192ksps is already at 24+billion FLOPS for a single track...
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Re:The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune by p0nce on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:42AM (#15499515)
CPU usage is even more of a problem that several years ago. Some very well known _compressors_ takes a whole 10% of CPU here. 10 of them and you're not realtime, probably earlier than that.
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