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Re: Disturbing test regarding EXS polyphony

2003-10-30 by Nick Batzdorf

>Something is rotten in
>  > Australia.


From: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>

>Sir! How_dare_you besmirch the honour of my country. Australia demands
>satisfaction!
>Expect whistling sounds overhead imminently.

Well, I do like to watch the Strine Owpin tennis tournament, if 
that's any consolation...

>Seriously -- we had better clarify what a voice is in this context. I am
>talking stereo voices and different files for every voice. All these streaming
>samplers cache the files already used so if you have an instrument which pitch
>shifts the same sample to create three notes then only one file is streamed.
>
>I very much doubt you are getting a genuine 180 stereo voices -- 
>each involving
>a unique continous unlooped file streaming up from a single 7200 ATA drive.

Good point. I'll load different programs and try it again when I get a chance.

>Whether or not the instrument is selected in the Mixer/Arrange page 
>affects the
>size of the audio buffer Logic uses for that instrument so there is another
>variable. Your soundcard's ASIO/Core Audio  buffer size is yet another
>variable.

I'm using the 512K Digidesign StreamManager, not the 128K one (which 
doesn't work).
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

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