EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 29/10/03 18:09, "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:

>> 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.
If you can afford buy another internal SATA disk(same disk, same speed) ,
make a Raid 0 of your 2 internal disk , buid a partition for your samples,
another for the system and/or other apps, use exsmanager to fix your samples

A raid 0 is about 1.7 faster in read and write operation.

Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

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