EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi all,

Just got the Bardstown Bosendorfer. Awesome. One amazing piano sample.

When the sound is that good, it really makes me feel like playing, and
digging in, and putting the pedal down and...basically playing a lot of
notes. So the polyphony adds up, and my powerbook(667) begins to hit the
limit. It's not too bad, on the version without filter it is sometimes
actually difficult to hit the top of the performance meter, but if you do
certain things, like, obviously, put the pedal down and do a gliss or
something, you will. the version with filter is not quite as friendly, if I
do a fair amount of pedal down arpeggiation kind of playing, it will hit the
ceiling fairly easily. I do appreciate very much how gracefully the system
recovers though, it just interrupts the voices and carries on.

It's such a high quality sound, that I am happy to work around these things,
and I will be able to learn what kinds of things I can and cannot do live
with it. I can't wait to get it onstage. So far I'm very happy with it, and
I'm relieved that it delivers pretty much the way the demos suggest.

Anyway, my question was about the performance of the virtual memory. I have
it set on low for audio recording, and slow for hard disk, these would be
the optimal settings, wouldn't they? Is anyone aware of any other tweaks I
can do to decrease the cpu load? Would changing stuff on my soundcard
settings affect that?

thank you! 

Darcy, very happy Bardstown customer