Native processing

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Native processing and processor nativity are terms in music for creating music on a computer without any additional aids. The adjective native makes it clear that the computing power comes solely from the computer's microprocessor and that no additional computing power (e.g. from DSPs ) is used.

The generation of music is done by special music software that does the work that previously required its own hardware. The first applications appeared in the early 1980s, the first software sequencers , followed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by software synthesizers and finally in the mid-1990s by software samplers and various effect plug-ins that functioned with the Effect devices took over.

However, it has only been possible to produce really satisfactory music on normal home PCs since the late 1990s , since the effect plug-ins, as well as the soft synths and soft samplers, in particular, require a lot of computing power. Critics also often claim that the results of good hardware can never be achieved by software, especially with regard to analog synthesizers , but also partially to effects devices that are based on tube effects, for example .