EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>  > 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.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434