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  • Faster than realtime render?

    J
    J
    Is it possible with this player?

    I know Kontakt does have issues sometimes since it is streaming the samples, but I think even though this is the case, its is still a worthwhile feature.

    Personally, I've never had issue with Kontakt's faster than realtime render, so I'm hoping this player supports it as well.
  • D
    D
    Since there is a VST/AU plugin, it does!

    Cheers,
    d.
  • J
    J
    That doesn't mean that it will, only that it could. The faster than realtime render depends wholly on the ability of the streaming engine.
  • N
    N
    That's an interesting question. My bet is that it can't, because so many things depend on the speed of your playing: legato, perf rep, speed as a switch (probably the most exciting new feature)...

    But why would I bother to speculate about this when VSL can answer it authoritatively? Don't I have anything better to do with my time? What's wrong with me?
  • J
    J
    Dunno, I'm camped out here for info too, Nick so no worries. [H]
  • D
    D
    Hi Joseph and Nick,

    rest assured that it does ... I'm writing the manuals just now, and there's no happier duty than having to try out Vienna Instruments [:D]

    cheers again,
    d.
  • J
    J
    That's some good news anyway. The speed of the render shouldn't affect the playback since its just sending the same midi data through the player. Just off-line.

    Some good news, finally.

    Now how about multi-timbrality of the player?
  • D
    D
    No multitimbrality. Working with a sequencer or other VST/AU host, you load one instance of VI per instrument you're using. But you have all the articulations you need for that instrument on one MIDI track, which makes all the difference concerning the tedious act of getting your mock-up together ... No deliberating whether you should put that sequence into the legato track, no juggling of notes between tracks.

    The stand-alone is good for live play, where you rarely play more than one instrument at the same time. And you could load matrices of different instruments and keyswitch between them to get several instruments during one performance.
  • J
    J
    There's that answered definitively then.

    Another one...

    How much CPU overhead does each instance require? Kontakt has about 1.5% per instance.

    This could be a big deal for those requiring a full orchestras worth of VI's.
  • T
    T
    I guess though that if you are using a host such as CubaseSX you could also "freeze" each instance too which would also free up CPU/Memory.
  • D
    D
    I cannot give you a definite number for the plugin now, but with the stand-alone (on my PC) it's somewhere between 0.6 and 1 %.

    Have to add that it depends on playing speed, of course. Making a sweep on my keyboard I could get it up to 3%, but that's where I normally would use octave runs ...