EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Nick Batzdorf wrote: 
>
> From: Slave Audio <slaveaudio@...>
>
> >Even if you do disk
> >streaming, you'll still get a processor load, so your limitation will
> >be your CPU not disks.
>
> If you're a computer hardware engineer making an informed statement, 
> I'll shut up, since I'm not. But I'm going to call your bluff and say 
> that while there is some CPU load, the limiting factor is absolutely 
> going to be the hard drive.
>
> I can run close to 128 sustained stereo EXS24 voices (that's 256 
> voices) on my dual gig Quicksilver G4 using a partition of the 
> internal drive.


Hi Nick,

That is a lot of voices from an ATA drive. Can you tell us what model drive is
it and how is it formatted? ( cluster size)

I am not sure what point it serves to make though. I take it you are not at the
limit of CPU with one drive. So, what is to stop you spreading your samples
around? 

Here are four options that could be used simultaneously if you you wanted to go
the whole hog.
1) do as you have done and put a bunch of samples on a partition of your system
disk,  
2) another lot on a SCSI sub-system (RAID for max performance)
3) some on your Audio drive on the second ATA channel. 
4)You could add more on a Firewire drive too.  

Eventually CPU or PCI bandwidth will be the limit.

Regards,
M