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ULTIMATE 8MB RAM EXS24 SYSTEM

2006-04-30 by luvcrazdog

THE ULTIMATE G5 8GB RAM LOGIC SYSTEM
I want to build the ultimate 8GB RAM Logic system. Klaus Bidault says he sold 
his 20 Gigastudio Pcs and now just uses a Mac G5 for all his samples.  How 
can one Mac G5 replace 20 Gigastudios?

On the VSL forum, Steve Von Kampen posted results of trying to utilize all 
8MB of RAM he had in his Quad using 4 MBs for Logic 7.2 Pro/EXS24, and 4 
MBs of stand-alone VSL VIs, but found that the VSL VIs leaked ram.

Is there a way for one G5 Quad with 8MB RAM or one G5 dual with 8MB RAM 
or two linked G5 Duals (each with 4Mbs RAM) to fully utilize all 8Mbs of RAM 
without leaking?

Has anyone tried:
1. All Logic systems, including Logic Pro 7.2 can only utilize 4 Mbs of RAM, 
running 128 EXS24s.  Anyone tried using 4 Mbs RAM to run Logic with 128 
EXS24s—and the other 4Mbs RAM to run the EXSP24 sample player as a 
stand-alone VST?

2. THE EXSP24 is a VST--which is limited to 16 MIDI channels.  Anyone 
opened several instances of the  EXSP24 stand-alone using IAC to access 
128 MIDI channels?

3 Both the EXS24 and the EXSP24 are extremely efficient RAM users.  Has 
anyone built an EXS24/EXSP24 equivalent of the VSL Vis that used only VSL 
EXS24 samples (not the VSL Vis) – but didn't leak RAM and could fully utilize 
8Mbs of RAM?  The VSL Vis basically offer 144 cell matrices.  I've never done 
it, but has anyone built one single EXS24 instance with 144 modulations?

So you could have 
one EXS24 instance with 144 string modulations
one EXS24 instance with 144 Wind modulations
one EXS24 instance with 144 Brass modulations
one EXS24 instance with 144 Percussion/other modulations

This takes advantage of the EXS24 uniqueness as a sampler—it only has to 
load samples once, so:
a.  you could load one Full Strings sample from Garritan,  VSL, Sonic 
Implants, and just using that one sample set tweak them via modulations 144 
different ways. 

OR:
You could build one single super EXS24 instance with:
STRINGS: 32 modulations via controllers
BRASS: 32 modulations via controllers
WINDS: 32 modulations via controllers
PERCUSSION, ETC: 32 modulations via controllers
This would be one super EXS24 instance that functioned as a super sampler.  

I'm thinking aloud, need your help:  The VSL Vis are nice but expensive, 
Kontakt 2.1 has excellent scripting, Gigastudio VST will be  interesting—but 
the EXS24 is the most efficient sampler because 1) it only has to load an 
instrument and sample set once and 2) you can combine hundreds of EXS24 
instruments into one super EXS24 instance and have an unlimited number of 
modulations.

Appreciate your thoughts, comments.
J. Marti

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