in the box vs out the box (cpu headroom)

[foreverain4]

would i essentially be creating more cpu headroom by routing tracks to individual outputs on my motu 2408 as opposed to having my computer "sum" in real time to 2 outputs?

 

[beezelbubba]

I don't know!

 

[foreverain4]

seems logical, does it not? it certainly "feels" like i have more power... hhmm

 

[beezelbubba]

You have found the answer by looking inward,grasshopper!

 

[Rstiltskin]

can you deal to two players faster than to 8?.....

would i essentially be creating more cpu headroom by routing tracks to individual outputs on my motu 2408 as opposed to having my computer "sum" in real time to 2 outputs?

your processor can only do 1 thing at a time (most likely), summing internally will be tween hard drive and processor and waiting and feeding two outputs.

the other way is hard drive being shuffled to say 8 outputs by the cpu with just moving data and few floating point computations.

I will take a wild ass guess and say it will be a near thing. if you have xp or 2000 you can do a realtime cpu utilization graph.........naw...its more fun to guess.