EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sam wrote: 
>
> Ok, so I'm sure we've all heard about the G5 release and the appearance of
> Gerhard in the keynote address.  He drops the stat that the new G5 played
> 1000 simultaneous 24-bit EXS24 voices. That sure sounds like plenty to play
> back any massively huge VSL orchestration you might do.  But just how many
> GB of samples can you load up into 8GB of memory with disk streaming turned
> on?



You would only need a fraction of the potential 8GB to run an orchestration if
disk streaming was switched on. However, you would never get near the limit of
voices with the current streaming setup. The limit would be disk throughput.

As streaming is currently setup, the proportion of each sample buffered in RAM
is small: just the initial part of each sample is loaded into RAM. If they
offered more user control over the bufferring ( on a per song basis say) you
could perhaps load a lot more of each sample into RAM and then only long notes
would play from disk. Loading an arrangment would take a while.  :-)

8GB would be 4 x 2 GB sticks -- not cheap and they would be obsolete long
before your sample library. This is one of the advantages of a big address
space -- 32 bit address is limited to 4GB. 

This makes me feel old -- 8MB was a generous allowance of memory for a Mac or
PC 11 years ago.

Regards,
Murray