@Plowman said:
I understand. I presently can't conceive of intelligence so powerful, it can interpret MIDI live and access any one of the numberless VSL arts, then *load* them, then play them back without latency, even if it is only one note and not the entire map. I'd think at least the head of the sample would need to be in RAM still.
That would really be the holy grail of large scale sampling though - eliminate the need for any and all RAM loading, and suddenly you can run as many samples as your hard drives can hold. Just imagine - the whole of the Cube (plus whatever else you care to throw in!) from a single computer... no more network glitches... the roaring fans of a hundred computers... and the chaotic software setups to keep those multisystem patch arrangements at least semi-coherent....
I don't know if this is possible now, but I do not doubt that it can be done. Pure disc streaming is what we are really waiting for.