How do the preload buffers of VI and Kontakt compare?

[mathis]

I managed to get my new system play back 1000 Voices off of my Raptor drive with 30kB preload buffers in Kontakt. That's of course fantastic since it lets me load much more Samples in the same amount of RAM than I was used to.
Now of course I wished I could lower VI's preload buffer as well, it seems to me a conservative waste of RAM after this experience to have 64kB of preload buffers.

Are these numbers actually comparable? In Kontakt additional RAM is required by the channel buffers. If VI doesn't need them then the calculation is again quite balanced.

I'm asking this because I think of moving all VI samples to a 7200rpm hardrive and using the Raptor solely for Kontakt. I guess VI works well enough from a contemporary 7200 drive, right?

[cm]

*waste of RAM* haha ... somehow true, somehow not ... the monolithic structure of the VI does not allow to vary preload buffer size. whereas a balanced system with raptors might be able to play instruments with 32 kB buffer size flawlessly this would be not the case for the overwhelming number of machines ...

7.200 rpm would be sufficient - always to see in relation to the number of samples which need to be streamed from the disk - my experience is that disks with perpendicular recording (eg. the 750 seagate sATA) work very well even with a load of VI collections stored.

consider the optimize function to get back a lot of the *wasted* memory ...
christian

[mathis]

Thanks, Christian. Optimze function is no option in my setup, unfortunately.