Don't think so as SF is a 32 bit application and isn't coded for multicore use. All flavours of Sonar E.G. 32 and 64 bit are though and as for Winrar, there's a 64 bit version of that which no doubt, takes full advantage of multi core use. Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: 02 April 2011 22:13 To: sf-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] SF 10 and Quad-Core CPU? Hi folks. Is there any way to tell a program like Sound Forge to take full advantage of the four cores I now have? Just as a hypothetical example with lots of number crunching: Let's say I want to down-sample 4 hours of 24-bit 96K audio. I start this running, and Windows reports that I am using only 25% of the available CPU, that is, one out of four available cores. Is there any way to tell SF or Windows to take a more brute force approach, and use multiple cores for a single intensive process? I guess that is more of a Windows 7 question than anything, as it would be handy to be able to do this for other things, such as batch encoding or decoding of large groups of files, making a particularly large rar archive, etc. thanks Chris PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq