EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 30/06/03 5:08, "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:

>>> >  > Right now, one Giga PC and one dual gig Quicksilver (both with 1.5GB
>>> >>  of RAM) load essentially the same amount of VSL. I'm getting 180
>>> >>  stereo voices off a Firewire drive on the Mac, and the PC gets the
>>> >>  Giga max 160 mono voices.
>>> >>
>>> >>  You'll be able to load more programs into 8GB of RAM, but you'll
>>> >>  still need to run the voices off multiple drives and busses. And then
>>> >>  the question is whether it's still cheaper to buy Giga PCs than to
>>> >>  buy all that RAM!
>>> >>
>>> >>  So the answer to Cyril's question is that we'll have to wait and see.
>> >
> 
>   From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>
> 
>> >Hello Nick
>> >
>> >Have you tried to run your samples from your internal HD
> 
> I have them on an internal HD on the Giga machine, but not on the
> Mac. That shouldn't make any difference, though, because Firewire had
> enough bandwidth for this not to be an issue. Both are 120GB IDE
> drives with 8MB buffers and similar specs  - in fact they may be the
> same WD drive; I forget what's in the Windows machine.
> 
> But I should stress that this isn't an exact benchmark. And I could
> probably get more polyphony out of the Mac if I split the samples
> across two drives.
> 
> Right now I've spent hours and hours (literally!) in the Project
> Manager getting EXS to load samples quickly, so I'm not anxious to
> rock the boat! As it is, it takes 15 minutes every time I open the PM
> window. But I'm not complaining about either machine because the
> performance is pretty damn good.
> 
> One other piece of trivia: Giga loads the same amount of samples in
> 793MB, which is the max you can get Giga to use under Windows XP
> (unless you go to 2GB of RAM, in which case the max going to a little
> under 1.1GB).
> 
> There are threads about this on the Northernsounds and VSL forums.

Hello Nick

Do you have an FW audio interface ?


Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

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