EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thanks, Hendrik -- that's what I was afraid of. I try to get a fairly
large orchestration (traditional classical). I do, however, have 2G of
RAM. I guess I'll have to struggle along with that and Express until I
can upgrade to Pro.



--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
> On a fine day, 31-01-2004, betina22000 wrote:
> 
> >I'm planning on getting the Logic Audio Express. I will use a lot of
> >samples with the EXSP sampler including Sam Horns, Westlake Woodwinds
> >and Sonic strings. Will the EXSPlayer (or multiple EXS players) in
> >Express handle this, or does this require the EXS mark II in the Pro
> >version? I'm on a G4 MDD 1.24DP, OS10.2.8. Thanks
> 
> The biggest shortcoming of the EXSP vs the EXS (apart from the 
> obvious fact that the P is just a player and won't let you edit 
> instruments) is that the EXSP doesn't support streaming from disk. 
> That means that it has to load all samples in RAM, which will cause 
> problems if you try to play a 2-gigabyte acoustic grand piano on a 
> 512 MB machine.  I don't know how big the instruments are you plan on 
> using, but this might be a consideration.  Obviously even with 
> relatively small instruments you'll also run into problems if you try 
> to load 50 of them -- the sum of the loaded instruments shouldn't 
> exceed the available physical RAM.
> 
> -- 
> Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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