Efficiency...

[francois_harel]

Hi everybody,

I use PLAY to drive EWQLSO Plat + and Goliath.
Play was host by Sibelius 7 in x64 mode. So I use the vsti x64.
I run under OsX Lion with a iMac i5 2.7MHz with 12Gb or ram.
EWQL sample are on an Thunderbolt (external) hard-disk of 1 Tb at 7200 rpm.
I run 8 instances of PLAY for my symphonic score. My score is simple, with 15 to 22 staves.

I don't have any external audio interface, jet the one internal provide by my iMac.

Sometime, my sound clip, mostly when I have many notes, runs or fast playing.

What is my options:

1) upgrade the ram to 16Gb (or maybe 32 Gb) but when I check the system, I don't think that I am out or ram.

2) Buy a Thunderbolt SSD (Lacie Thunderbolt SSD 240Gb) for EWQLSO samples ?

3) Does I need an external audio interface? Can it solve my problem ?

4) Try to tweak the instances of PLAY ? ad how ?

Thanks,

Francois, Montreal

[jpenner]

try to stream some of your more heavy samples from ram and not disk.... if you have 8GB of ram than your bottleneck is more likely to be your hard drive, I run CCC with 16GB and a 7200 rpm HD, i often load the strings onto the ram when my orchestration is dense

[francois_harel]

Dear Jpenner,

It's seems to be very interesting.
Unfortunately, can you give me some info about the way to increase the proportion of samples that are loaded into ram compare to streaming !!!
Where is the control that fi this proportion ?
Thanks,
Francois, Montreal

[jpenner]

In PLAY Under the main menu tab in the top right corner, for each sample ( think its under streaming). There is a tab you can uncheck that says "stream from disk." Keep in mind this is loads the entire sample into ram and does not work for large samples such as Pianos. Another thing to do is check to make sure your samples are reading only their specific midi track and only on 1 channel rather than the "omni" setting.

Buying an SSD will probably solve your problem too, it just costs more



John

[francois_harel]

Yes, but with a library weighting 194Gb, I will need a lot of ram.
Maybe an SSD will be useful.
Francois, Montreal

[jpenner]

true, an SSD is the best option, I only load my most heavy samples on to the ram (usually the strings)