Hi VSL Team,
I'm trying a new stategy with my VSL sample libraries and it seems to be working. My hope is that this will help spread the load accross my two drives better than just installing each library on a different drive. I'm posting this thread to make sure there isn't any unintended side effects I might be running up against and am not yet aware of.
I have two sample hard drives and both are eSATA-300 7200RPM 320GB formatted MAC OS X Extended (NOT Journaled).
Sample HD 1 has the following directories on it and in each of these folders are the odd numbered dat files:
25 AppassionataStrings
25 AppassionataViolins
26 AppassionataViolas
27 AppassionataCelli
28 AppassionataBasses
25 Appassionata-II_Strings
25 Appassionata-II_Violins
26 Appassionata-II_Violas
27 Appassionata-II_Cellos
28 Appassionata-II_Basses
53 SpecialBrass-Cornet
56 SpecialBrass-Altotrombone
59 SpecialBrass-Euphonium
63 SpecialBrass-Trumpets-a6
87 Elements
95 SpecialKeyboards-Cembalo
96 SpecialKeyboards-Harmonium
97 SpecialKeyboards-PreparedPiano
100 SpecialEdition
101 SpecialEditionPLUS
Sample HD 2 has the exact same directories on it except that Sample HD 2 contains the even numbered dat files. Both hard drives and their directories are scanned with the Directory Manager.
Is this a problem, can I split my VSL libraries this way? Both drives seem to be equally busy whether I'm playing one instrument or many more instruments simultaneously. Also, I believe I am getting less sputtering and less core audio overloads, though I have no evidence of this as it may be just a feeling I'm getting that this seems to be working better.
Thanks, Brian [:)]