Best Setup for Music ( octamed )

[Karlos]

How odd. I have no such problems on a far lower spec PC than that.

However, emulating the amiga audio is a problem here, which frankly I don't bother doing (I sometimes use OctaMED to render to disk on the PC, but not for realtime audio playback).

MIDI playback is fine here. I use a JIT 68040 emulation with 8MB translation cache, ECS chipset emulation, 32MB fastmem amd P96 display drivers.

[Karlos]

There's no reason not to use 68040 emulation. Octamed 6 and Octamed Soundstudio work fine with 040.

Things to look at:

1) OctaMED Soundstudio. If using Mix mode, watch out for the smoothing option. It's extremely CPU intensive. As more channels kick in, the CPU loading goes up a lot.

2) Emulating the amiga sound filter and disk drive sound emulation are not really useful and depending on how they are emulated may be a waste of CPU time (the LPF filter antway).

3) Make sure you are running the emulation on an Picasso96 RTG screenmode. Emulating a fullscreen 1024x768x8-bit RTG screen (ideal for OctaMED) is *far* less resource intensive than emulating a basic 16-colour AGA PAL display. In fact, use the native chipset emulation only for apps that don't work in RTG mode.