How much ram for strings and a solo instrument?

[Hulsebosch]

Hi there,

I,m thinking about VSL, but i'm not in the mood to buy extra daw's at this moment. My question is:

How much ram does it take to use a nice string arrangement and one solo instrument?


Thanks for your time,


Kaj

[Paul]

Hi Kaj,

and welcome!

Could you please specify what "nice" means to you? That would indeed help a lot [:)]

As you know, we also offer different section sizes for the strings:

Chamber Strings (6/4/3/2 players)
Orchestral Strings I&II (14/10/8/6 players)
and
Appassionata Strings (20/14/12/10 players)

What kind of music are you planning to compose? What is your current setup?

Thanks for the additional info!

Best,

Paul

[Hulsebosch]

Hi,

Thanks for the ultra quick reply.

I like to use:
a string section of 10+ instruments
one solo instrument ( flute, trumpet etc.)

I have only one daw , 4400 amd x2, 2 gig of c 2.5 ram and 3 recent diamond max 10, all working one a 939 Gigabyte kns Ultra board. Using Cubase sx 3 and several plugin's, no hardware synths.

The style of music is electrodisco with at times a jazz or classical touch, inspired by artista such as Herbie Hancock, Africa Bambata and Quincy Jones.

I hope this is enough information

[Beat Kaufmann]

@Hulsebosch said:

Hi,

I like to use:
a string section of 10+ instruments
one solo instrument ( flute, trumpet etc.)
I hope this is enough information

Hello Hulsebosch
You will be able to work with VIs and your Computer-Equipment. That's my meaning.
But you want be able to load up lots of different articulations for every of the "10+" Vienna-Instruments in the mean time. Nevertheless there are some solutions for you and your system:
1. Edit and build every instrument (Violins1, Violins2, Flute...) one after the other. "Prefinished" an instrument use the "learn-mode" in VI which finally chuck out the unused samples - and there are quit a lot! So you don't use a lot of RAM for every VI (= the Flute for example) even if you play a lot of different articulations.

2. Begin with mini-articulation-sets for every instruments, which lets you play nearly all situations in a first "round":
Load for example:
- the Unversal Legato Articulation
- the Short Notes Articulations
- the Dynamic Articulations 2s / 3s (for dim and cresc)

3. Further: To save some CPU-Power (audio side) you can select the "Freezing-Function" for every instrument in Cubase SX3.

And a finally remark:
The creation of a piece with samples takes a lot of time - even if you have a Rolls Royce as Computer or not.
So perhaps there is also the possibility to create the strings in a first step, make a downmix of them and chuck out the vienna instruments then. In a second step you play other additional instruments. If you need to change string parts after that, you will not loose a lot of time to reload the string vienna instruments (which are saved as set of course).
If you are hating this procedure later on > Save money for a Rolls [:D] .

Wait for more recommendations of other VI-users

All the best
Beat Kaufmann