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 If you want to be sure I read your answer leave my name in it ! Spam mails are directly going to trash