EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>From: Colin Shapiro <musos@...>
>Subject: Re: Disturbing test regarding EXS polyphony
>
>Ned wrote:
>>My questions are: what about the 1,000 voices from the G5 unveiling?
>>How about just 150, without drop-outs/crackles? Is this related to my
>>use of the factory drive, as opposed to using another, audio-dedicated
>>drive? Can anyone confirm any of this?
>
>There's a thread on the VSL forum that might interest you:
>http://235.deatech.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1541
>
>This guy is getting 35 EXS24 instances of VSL instruments!!
>He's done a few tweaks it seems - you could mail him and ask for advice.

What's impressive about the tweaks isn't the number of instruments, 
it's that it lets you load lots of big instruments. Evan's tweaks 
open up the memory and number of open files restrictions. But that 
won't help Ned.

Getting 150 voices streaming from a hard drive is very much related 
to the hard drive performance. You also want to experiment with the 
disk streaming settings.

I put the VSL on a fresh Firewire drive, and I'm getting 180 stereo 
voices. Getting 150 *stereo* voices is still very good, but you 
should be able to get more than 150 mono voices.

Note that the 1000-voice polyphony was using RAM-based samples, not 
streaming them off a disk.
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Nick Batzdorf
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