With Apples announcement of their ultra-thin laptop with optional 64G solid stat hard drive, I guess we can soon see the the time when reasonably big drives at reasonable prices will start emerging (<3 years ?) swith all the inherent advantages of lower latency, lower power, higher bandwidth throughput etc.
seems to me to be the ideal storage solution for samples.
with this in mind, has VSL started looing at the implications for a typical VI DAW ?
- with instant access, would the need for pre-loading the early part of samples into memory still be required ?
- hence, would the limitations on number of articulations and instruments disappear, since no pre-loading were necessary ?
- hence also would one of the needs for 64bit OS (large memory) access die ?
- hence can I stop worrying about memory as the bottleneck ?
- would we be able to get a single drive performing more instruments, perhaps doing away with the need for a separate server for strings, winds, brass etc ?
- would the VSL software have to re-written to obviate the need for pre-laoding of memory ?
I feel with this technology we may be at a significant turning point in VI systems ... perhaps the biggest change since disk streaming was first conceived by conexant / tascam ?
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
Thanks