16bit samples not decreasing amount loaded into ram

[Moneta]

I just purchased a new i7 2.8ghz 12gb ram slave machine running windows 7 and have loaded the Platinum Plus samples onto it spread across 4 different hard drives. I built a template off of the 24bit samples and ran out of room so I proceeded to switch everything over to 16bit. The problem is loading everything in 16bit didnt really decrease the ram usage that much, it basically went from 10.5 gb with the 24bit samples to 10.3gb with the 16bit samples.

I didnt do a normal install of play, I simply copied the sample library's over from my Intel Mac to the new hard drives on the slave PC. Afterwards I installed Play v1.2.5 That being said, that being said only thing I can think of is maybe that Play isnt really loading the 16bit samples. I would have expected to at least gain a couple of gigabytes by doing this.

I should proabably also mention that I am loading play into vienna ensemble pro via jbridge on the slave machine.

Any idea's?

[Pietro]

Loading 16 bit samples is not going to decrese memory usage.

Check post #472 for explanation:
http://www.soundsonline-forums.com/s...ortion&page=48

- Piotr

[Moneta]

That makes sense, dont know why I didnt think of that before! I was shocked that I ran out of ram as quickly as I did with my template and have been frustrated, but I just read another one of your posts that mentioned that jbridge makes each instance of play load as if it were the first. I.E. instead of having one 400 - 500 mb instance and then a bunch of smaller ones of around 20mb, all of my play instances are eating up the 400 - 500mb. Considering that my template has 12 instances of Play I am chewing up close to half of my available ram just in my play instances, looks like I will have to wait for VE Pro and Play to get along before I will be able to setup my ideal template. In the meantime I will reduce my engine level from 2 to 0 to see if that works.

Thanks for your help!

[Anheuser]

If you're not exceeding 3.2 GB per instance of PLAY, you could opt to use the 32 bit version via jbridge (I assume you're using the 64 bit version of PLAY). The 32 bit version is around 250 megs before you load any instruments, so you can get as significant RAM savings by going that route. I'm now doing this with jbridge because I never load that much into a single instance of PLAY.

Sean