@julian said:
Let's hope the mac performances are a little more revealing when they are published.
Julian
Mac will be far worse [:P]
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What looks really worrying in the first instance is the max instances of VI achieved - 24 max. I have regularly used 100 EXS 24 instruments in a score now I know the VI's with their matrices reduce the requirement for channels. But in an orchestral line-up "Strings 5, Wind 7, Brass 6, Harp, Piano Percussion (4) and now we've run out before we think solo's, choirs, and all the other instruments often used.
In Logic on a mac if you run out of voices, RAM or CPU you can always freeze the most important thing you can complete the largest orchestrations on one computer.
If there is really a score limit of 24 staves (24 instruments) this could be an issue.
Let's hope the mac performances are a little more revealing when they are published.
Julian, you can make use of RAM Optimize to stay on the MIDI level, when your RAM reaches the limits. We would like to see the perfect orchestration computer that never runs out of RAM ourselves...
I canĀ“t wait to have the final figures for MAC as well, I just really want to make sure that everything is doublechecked, so that you know what it really looks like....
Thanks for your input, everybody!
Best wishes, Paul
However, I'm slightly disappointed that the results weren't better using FX-Teleport. In theory every instance should have a limit of 2Gb, therefore one should be able to load in excess of 3Gb on a machine that has 4Gb RAM. Did you test for this, or were your tests limited to 2Gb machines?
@julian said:
What looks really worrying in the first instance is the max instances of VI achieved - 24 max. I have regularly used 100 EXS 24 instruments in a score now I know the VI's with their matrices reduce the requirement for channels. But in an orchestral line-up"
Strings 5, Wind 7, Brass 6, Harp, Piano Percussion (4) and now we've run out before we think solo's, choirs, and all the other instruments often used.
In Logic on a mac if you run out of voices, RAM or CPU you can always freeze the most important thing you can complete the largest orchestrations on one computer.
If there is really a score limit of 24 staves (24 instruments) this could be an issue.
Let's hope the mac performances are a little more revealing when they are published.
Julian
@Nick Batzdorf said:
So when you say 20 - 24 instruments, you're talking about the equivalent of five billion programs.
Ja?
I really want to thank Herb, Paul, Chris and Company for taking the time to do these tests and for taking the time to post them. This is exceptional. No other company has ever done this and for one, I really appreciate your efforts. That you went and tested a PII and a PII is also fantastic given the number of composers who have those machines because of GS2.54, and now find that they can still get some use out of those systems.
This to me is corporate responsibility in action.
PA
@Paul said:
To my knowledge we can adress up to 1.5 - 1.7 GB of RAM, and all suggestions here on the forum seem rather theoretical to me... If anyone has experience with adressing more than 1.7 GB of RAM with a streaming sampler on a PC, please share your infos.
Best, Paul
@Paul said:
Hi,
I couldnĀ“t load more into my RAM in either one of the SX 3 machines, and to my knowledge Nuendo is built on the same basic system, but IĀ“ll give it a shot... would really surprise me though.
Best, Paul
@Paul said:
Hi,
I couldnĀ“t load more into my RAM in either one of the SX 3 machines, and to my knowledge Nuendo is built on the same basic system, but IĀ“ll give it a shot... would really surprise me though.
XP64, we havenĀ“t tested on a 64 bit machine yet, I will as soon as I get my hands on one. But the Vienna Instruments are not yet optimized for 64 bit systems yet, and as I understand it, you only benefit from 64bit technology, if every part of the system is optimized, from the chip to the harddrives, the drivers and applications....
I will keep you up to date.
Best, Paul
Do you think it will be possible to let this "test song" available for the end user ? Then we could post our results here.
@Paul said:
XP64, we havenĀ“t tested on a 64 bit machine yet, I will as soon as I get my hands on one. But the Vienna Instruments are not yet optimized for 64 bit systems yet, and as I understand it, you only benefit from 64bit technology, if every part of the system is optimized, from the chip to the harddrives, the drivers and applications....
I will keep you up to date.
Best, Paul