PS3 Cell Proccesor and DAWs

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The future of proccesors is here folks. The new PS3 Cell proccesor will probly knock off AMD 64 bit and the new Intel Dual Core chips. Well what does this mean for dance producers? Here's a qoute from http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html. Thanks to DJDeeb for the link=).
"Audio is one of those areas where you can never have enough power. Today's electronic musicians have multiple virtual synthesisers each of which has multiple voices. Then there's traditionally synthesised, sampled and real instruments. All of these need to be handled and have their own processing needs, that's before you put different effects on each channel. Then you may want global effects and compression per channel and final mixing. Many of these processes can be vectorised. Cell will be an absolute dream for musicians and yet another headache for synthesiser manufacturers who have already seen PCs encroaching on their territory".

I can't wait for this new technology to make an impact on audio production. Convolution reverbs with realtime editing? Unlimited plugin use? Sonar Cell or Logic Cell anyone?

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yeah you're forgetting no operating system runs on it yet, and it's powerpc based so the only easy choices are osx and linux.

as linux is not really pro-audio ready, and apple chooses the processor sets it runs on, so you're at their mercy. seeing how cell processor sources will be dry for a long time ramping for ps3 releases, i doubt you'll see the cell run a major commercial operating system for another 2 years, at the most kindest estimate.