EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Nick Batzdorf <recording@e...> wrote:

> 
> I'm getting 180 stereo voices off a single 120GB FW drive, so there 
> aren't any innate problems. 

Nick

are you sure you aren't dropping data when streaming with firewire?  in my testing, 
i've found that all drives (ata, scsi) will appear to playback as many voices as your CPU 
can handle.  but the slower the drive, the more they have to drop data to do it.  

logic/EXS doesn't warn you that data has been dropped.  but if you keep the EXS 
Virtual Memory panel open, you can see a figure for dropped sample data.

i've personally found that ATA/100 drives in oxford911 firewire cases can stream 
about 110 stereo voices before dropping data.

anyway, just wanted to mention it. 

cheers