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  • Symphonic Cube Extended How many files? (not samples)

    J
    J
    Can someone at VSL give an estimate as to the number of actual sample files there are on the Symphonic Cube extended?

    I know 800,000 is the figure for the samples but am I correct in that within the VI framework individual samples of an instrument are sometimes grouped together as single files so a single audiofile on the hard disc might comprise say 20 or so samples?

    I guess having fewer files will be a good thing as when I carry out and disc operations in the finder or stuff like disc warrior maintenance the shear number of files on my VSL disc means these operations take longer than my other discs of similar size but containing far fewer files.

    Julian
  • H
    H
    The 800.000 figures are individual wav files. But the wavfiles are organized in a monolithic fileformat. For the solo violin for example, there are only 36 different files.

    best
    Herb
  • J
    J
    Hi Herb,

    Could you hazard a guess as to how many files there will be in total for the Symphonic Cube. To the nearest 50,000!

    Thanks

    Julian
  • H
    H
    I think less than 1000 files.

    best
    Herb
  • J
    J
    Herb,

    I was reminded of your answer above a couple of days ago as I was running EXS manager on my VSL stuff. It reported there were 15,000 programmes. Now I realise Virtual Instruments have a totaly different architecture but I'm interested as to how 1000 files could service the replacement/evolved instruments for over 15,000 programmes.

    Do numereous patches address the same monolithic file? and if this is the case could there be the situation of a number of VI instances forming an orderly queue to pull off the hard disc different parts of the same file?

    Also if the uncompressed symphonic cube is around 500GB this would make these sample files 500MB each? so it would be best to copy them directly to a pretty empty drive to avoid file fragmentation.

    With the first instruments arriving soon some up front file info/disc recommendations would be useful to speed our installation process.

    Thanks
    Julian.