small question about Vienna special edition

[Dup]

Hello,
Can you answer me: with the Vienna Special edition must we install on the hardisk the instruments we already owned? and to have the same samples twice on harddisk?
Best regards
Dup

[cm]

dup, ahead the usual *disclaimer*: you don't own them, you have them licensed ...
if you are referring to opus 1 (as product you have upgraded from) - no, although you might want to keep opus installed for some reasons.
if you are referring to other ViennaInstruments collections - no, because the special edition has its own data files.
christian

[Dup]

Hello cm,
sorry about the term of "own" but as my english is not very good it was the fisrt translation it comes in my mind.
I refer to other ViennaInstruments collections I have installed such woodwinds I and II and solo strings etc..on my hardisk So if I understand you the samples witch are allready on the hardisk would not be store again ? and the full 80 gb of the "vienna special edition" will not take 80gb on my hardisk but less?¨
Thanks for your answer
Dup

[Conquer]

Hello Dup, I think you misunderstood cm. Although the VI SE uses samples from other Vienna Instrument collections, the library has its own unique set of patches and therefore requires that you install the whole 80GB. I imagine it would have been too complicated to design it any other way.

[dbudde]

VI SE is actually only 53.56GB on the disk. I believe the number 80 GB is the uncompressed version.

[stevesong]

dbudde is, I believe, correct. My understanding is that, for all VI libraries, the samples are decompressed on the fly - in real time - hence, although, in this case, in compressed form, they occupy less than 80GB, they need the 80GB - - which is why VSL specifies 80GB.

[dbudde]

They don't need 80G on the disk. I have mine installed on a 60G drive. The can't use 80G of RAM because no machine supports that. I don't know why they spec it at 800G.

[cm]

the reason is simple: the unkopressed database has about 80 GB and if we would write *you need 55 GB free space on your harddisk* many users would claim *it stutters and crackles* (because the harddisk is significantly slower on its *end*).
since it is always a good idea to keep at least 10%, better 20-25% free space on aharddisk the *requirement* is 80 GB to avoid at least this bottleneck.
christian