EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>

>You would only need a fraction of the potential 8GB to run an orchestration if
>disk streaming was switched on.

It depends on how big the orchestration is, but even that's not the 
bigger issue. The main reason so many composers use multiple Giga 
machines is that you don't want to go loading samples while you're 
writing - you need them all cued up and ready to go, even though 
everything isn't playing  every second of the time.

>  However, you would never get near the limit of
>voices with the current streaming setup. The limit would be disk throughput.

I suspect that with multiple drives (possibly arrays) running across 
multiple busses you'd be okay.

>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.  :-)

Right now I fill up a 1.5GB GigaStudio machine and a 1.5GB Mac with 
the Vienna Symphonic Library and still need more.

>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.

I've said it again and I'll say it before: we musicians have always 
brought computers to their knees.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
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