Darcy James Argue / 05.3.7 / 04:37 PM wrote: >GPO is RAM-based. There's a DFD (direct-from-disk) option, but that >only makes things worse.
You mean Kontakt is, because GPO is just a set of samples :-) Anyway, I was wondering where you stored GPO? If it is on your boot volume, streaming won't work in general. It needs to be at least separate partition, if not separate disk. Even FW would make it better, I believe. I have MachFive. The version 1 didn't offer streaming. At that time, I was trying to run it on my lowly Dual-450/1.5GB, and cpu hit was terrible when I instantiated more than 3 of heavy samples. Version 1.1 (I think) came with streaming option, and it took out a huge chunk of cpu usage, in the exchange of editing capability. If you want to edit sample, you have to switch to RAM mode. Giga is still the industrial standard, and it is _the_ streaming sampler with editing capability. They made it possible by handling streaming at lower kernel level, and this is the very reason they can't port it to Mac. Heck they even had the problem porting to NT5 kernel until the end of its life (I think they support it now, tho). MOTU is coming out with orchestra lib in near future, and I hope they come up with good stuff. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
