EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hey folks :)

Ya know, when Andy pointed out where the settings for EXS virtual memory was
located in the UI, I pulled one great big fat "DOH!!" I tried it out A LONG
time ago before my Sawtooth's G4 upgrade (still in Mac OS 9) and it just
didn't work for me. Since I got the upgrade and moved to OS X and Logic Pro,
I FORGOT about digging through that preference (I'm usually hitting the
"Edit" button in EXS and saving EXS patches via the Edit window's file menu.
So, I rarelygo into the UI's Options menu.

ANYWAY, I started messing around with the VM settings last night, in the
hopes of being able to use 32 bit float to ease off on the GPU. It crackled
a bit on my 1.3GB bank. For now, I'm returning to the setup that worked for
me (SR conversion normal, Sample Storage original, VM off, 512 I/O buffer,
medium processor buffer, no OS X pageins with 2GB physical RAM) and maybe
play with it more when the workload eases up.

Thanks to you guys for clearing some isues up for me -- mainly to remind me
of WHERE EXS' VM prefs reside! :-D


MacDuff


On 7/31/04 9:21 AM, "Murray McDowall" <murraymc@...> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Other than it consuming more RAM, right? And when I ran out of RAM, I don't
>> know if LOGIC'S streaming kicked in or not.
> 
> 
> Streaming of samples is on only if you have Virtual Memory checked in the
> EXS24
> preferences. If you have this checked you can have huge sample libraries
> loaded. If it is off then you will be limited to some proportion of your
> physical RAM - try to load a 2 GB piano sample set into your 1GB or RAM and
> you
> will get crackling at best and a lot of disk activity when you try to load it
> as most of it ends up in the system swap file.
> 
>> 
>> Activity Monitor just showed the
>> RAM get gobbled as Logic rejuggled the resources of my loaded song when I
>> went from "normal" to "32 bit float", and I subsequently experienced the
>> crackling and crashing. That's why -- at the expense of a greater CPU load
>> -- "normal" SEEMS to be working for me the best.
>> 
>> Just to request again, how is Logic's virtual memory streaming invoked?? By
>> the user? Or automatically by the app?
> 
> 
> 
> See above - switch it on in EXS24 prefs - I have 1GB of RAM and I leave it on
> all the time.
> 
> Regards,
> Murray\