I have been putting together a large orchestral template. I first started with lots of small instances, but then I read in the VEP manual that it said that the fewer instances the better.
So my question is-what is the limit of how big you should make a single instance? I see you can have something like 750+ audio tracks coming out of a single instance and many dozens of midi ports, so even with my relatively powerful slave computer, I would not run out of audio outputs or midi ports even if I just put everything in to a single instance....
So that's my question. I'm running something like 700 Kontakt and Play instances in my template currently, and that is using about 90 Gigs of Ram. I'm running a pretty powerful 8 core (16 thread) 7820x i7.
The last instance I made was for all my woodwinds and it used somethiing like 150 audio outputs and 25 MIDI Ports.
How do you decide when an instance is "big enough"?