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  • Special Edition & CPU power !

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    Hi, being new to the Vienna Instument i went throught a couple of threads in this forum before asking this questions :

    i juste bought the special edition and i think it's great, the player i realy very powerfull and the sound really rock !

    however here is my concern....CPU power !

    i have a dual G5 2 X 2,3 with 3,5 Go RAM runing OSX 10.4.8 with Cubase SL 2.2 as host and as i descovered that VI is mono timbral in the sense that i have to load an instance for each instruments i whant in my template, so let's say that i load around 20 instances to make a medium orchestra that will put my CPU load to 70% !!!

    no problem with the RAM or Disk flow aparently...so is that kind of performance normal ? i couldn't find Nick post about loading 7 Go of RAM but is there a workaround because with this kind of CPU load i can't play much...

    how do you guys deal with so many instances open at the same time and having no trouble ?

    i'll be soon upgrading to cubase 4 and adding 2Go of RAM but o'm not shure that will solve my concern.

    thank for your help.
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    @groovevsl said:

    Hi, being new to the Vienna Instument i went throught a couple of threads in this forum before asking this questions :

    i juste bought the special edition and i think it's great, the player i realy very powerfull and the sound really rock !

    however here is my concern....CPU power !

    i have a dual G5 2 X 2,3 with 3,5 Go RAM runing OSX 10.4.8 with Cubase SL 2.2 as host and as i descovered that VI is mono timbral in the sense that i have to load an instance for each instruments i whant in my template, so let's say that i load around 20 instances to make a medium orchestra that will put my CPU load to 70% !!!

    no problem with the RAM or Disk flow aparently...so is that kind of performance normal ? i couldn't find Nick post about loading 7 Go of RAM but is there a workaround because with this kind of CPU load i can't play much...

    how do you guys deal with so many instances open at the same time and having no trouble ?

    i'll be soon upgrading to cubase 4 and adding 2Go of RAM but o'm not shure that will solve my concern.

    thank for your help.


    Groove,
    the bit missing here is the ram save option. Unlike many other dedicated sample players, VSL has the option of, once playing a line in, of hitting the button so to speak, and the player dumps the unwanted samples (those you haven't used when inputting) and leaving only those you require. From the comments and figures given here by not only VSL but users, the Ram save feature is a real bonus, and resource saver.
    It's worth perhaps doing a search here, and reading some of the threads pertaining to this.

    Good Luck!

    Alex.
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    Groove,
    the bit missing here is the ram save option. Unlike many other dedicated sample players, VSL has the option of, once playing a line in, of hitting the button so to speak, and the player dumps the unwanted samples (those you haven't used when inputting) and leaving only those you require. From the comments and figures given here by not only VSL but users, the Ram save feature is a real bonus, and resource saver.
    It's worth perhaps doing a search here, and reading some of the threads pertaining to this.

    Good Luck!

    Alex.[/quote]

    thanks Alex,

    actually i didn't mention that on my message, but i did "learn & clean" all the instances acording to my very small arrangment and it didn't change anything !!!

    that's the reason why i'm woried because i couldn't playback correctly without drop and so on...appently only due to cpu power ! not RAM issue...!

    i red the test on a dual 2X2,5 G5 (on this forum) with apparently 24 instances but on a logic host and there is no way for me to achieve such performance in a similar Dawn...could it be my Cubase Host ? i know other users of Vienna use Cubase so it shouldn't be so drastic !

    how do it work for others in similar configuration ?

    and why do we have to open one instance for every instruments ?

    i know the player is very powerfull but sometimes i'd need a less powerfull player but with the multitimbral option to save CPU power on large templates (is 20 instances large ?).

    thanks anyway your point was smart !