EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 11:30  AM, Murray McDowall wrote:

> The firmware in the drive will determine what caching strategies are 
> used and
> if the right data is cached ahead of a read request (a cache hit) the 
> data will
> be transimitted to RAM or the CPU much more quickly than if it has to 
> be read
> off the media.

But how can it guess what note is going to play next? I seriously doubt 
there is any kind of look ahead function in Logic, EXS or Kontakt, and 
AFAIU without such a function the overall difference would be minimal. 
Am I missing something here?
>
> I gather that the caching approaches taken by some drives (eg 
> Seagate's new 10K
> rpm SATA Raptor ) are quite different from most enterprise (database) 
> optimised
> drives so the performance delta between drives would probably vary 
> from brand
> to brand and model to model.

I'm only talking Seagate here as I'm not considering any other 
manufacturer at this time.
>
> In the case where you are streaming up a lot of long audio files (eg 
> recorded
> audio tracks or sustained piano notes -- think the chord at the end of 
> A day in
> the Life) I suspect that the difference would not be great. In the 
> case of
> smaller files (eg short percussion samples sitting close together on 
> the drive)
> it might make a larger difference. Personally I went with an 8MB drive.

Seems like not that much a difference with piano and orchestral stuff...
>
> Go to storagereview.com and read some drive reviews if you want more 
> info on
> this.

Yeah, thanks for this one as well.

Best,

Andy