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appendix a
DSP Requirements
The number of TDM plug-ins you can use at one
time depends on how much DSP power is avail-
able in your system. Since the TDM hardware on
Pro Tools cards provide dedicated DSP for plug-
ins, plug-in performance isn’t limited by CPU
processing power.
The DSP tables in this appendix show the theo-
retical number of instances of each plug-in that
can be powered by a single DSP chip on
Pro Tools|HD cards. DSP usage differs according
to card type.
There are a total of nine DSP chips on a
Pro Tools|HD card (HD Core
®
, HD Process
®
, and
HD Accel). HD Core and HD Process cards pro-
vide identical chip sets. HD Accel cards provide
newer, more powerful DSP chips (making the
HD Accel card ideal for DSP-intensive plug-ins,
and for high sample rate sessions).
Not all plug-ins are supported on all types of
chips. The following tables indicate the number
of compatible chips per card.
Voice polyphony may be reduced by as much as
25% if all effects (chorus, phaser, reverb and de-
lay) are used simultaneously.
DSP tables show the theoretical maximum
performance when no other plug-ins or sys-
tem tasks (such as I/O) are sharing avail-
able DSP resources. You will typically use
more than one type of plug-in simulta-
neously. The data in these tables are pro-
vided as guidelines to help you gauge the
relative efficiency of different plug-ins on
your system. They are not guaranteed per-
formance counts that you should expect to
see in typical real-world sessions and usage.
Virus Indigo does not support 174.4 kHz or
192 kHz session sample rates on
Pro Tools|HD systems.
A maximum of four DSPs can be used for
Virus IndigoV40. This allows a maximum
total of 160 Virus Indigo voices on
Pro Tools|HD Accel systems.
A maximum of eight DSPs can be used for
Virus Indigo. This allows a maximum total
of 160 Virus Indigo voices on Pro Tools|HD
systems.
Systems with enough DSP to support both
Virus IndigoV40 and Virus Indigo allow a
maximum total of 320 voices.
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