If you have presets that contain both standard, single-note articulations *and* performance articulations, you may be able to save a fair bit of memory by replacing the single-note articulations with their performance equivalents. Although I've considered doing this before, I've just playing around with it and I'm finding it really quite useful.
As an example, i've just been playing around with my solo Trombone preset. The original had all my "standard" articulations in a single matrix, and performances in another. I'd used the staccato sample, and the noVib sustain sample, in one matrix, and also had perf-rep staccato and the standard (L1) legato in another matrix. Well, I've just replaced the staccato with the perf-rep version, and the noVib sus with the regular legato, and in the process saved around 30 MB of RAM. Not bad. The sustain offered by the legato is certainly comparable to the noVib sus, and the perf-rep stac is a good replacement for the individual staccato, with the bonus of full reps, instead of just alternations.
I'm sure there are loads of people doing this already, but I just thought I'd pop up a note, in case anybody else out there is as slow as me... (drools from corner of mouth)
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ps - this is the first time I've actually edited any instruments in the GUI for literally months, and I have to say, the interface on the VI is absolutely bloody brilliant!
Congrats to Golem and company!
J.
pps - anybody sitting on the fence about Sibelius 5 - just jump over!!! Once you get a soundset built, the new playback features are exceptionally flexible. Sooooo much you can do now, with nothing but standard music notation markings. This alone is worth the upgrade. (Still... if VSL decided to build a notation editor, with sample selection, memory optimization, and so on built-in, I'd be the first to thrown down my cash for it!!! hint, hint.)
As an example, i've just been playing around with my solo Trombone preset. The original had all my "standard" articulations in a single matrix, and performances in another. I'd used the staccato sample, and the noVib sustain sample, in one matrix, and also had perf-rep staccato and the standard (L1) legato in another matrix. Well, I've just replaced the staccato with the perf-rep version, and the noVib sus with the regular legato, and in the process saved around 30 MB of RAM. Not bad. The sustain offered by the legato is certainly comparable to the noVib sus, and the perf-rep stac is a good replacement for the individual staccato, with the bonus of full reps, instead of just alternations.
I'm sure there are loads of people doing this already, but I just thought I'd pop up a note, in case anybody else out there is as slow as me... (drools from corner of mouth)
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ps - this is the first time I've actually edited any instruments in the GUI for literally months, and I have to say, the interface on the VI is absolutely bloody brilliant!
Congrats to Golem and company!
J.
pps - anybody sitting on the fence about Sibelius 5 - just jump over!!! Once you get a soundset built, the new playback features are exceptionally flexible. Sooooo much you can do now, with nothing but standard music notation markings. This alone is worth the upgrade. (Still... if VSL decided to build a notation editor, with sample selection, memory optimization, and so on built-in, I'd be the first to thrown down my cash for it!!! hint, hint.)