[LAU] piano samples

[andy baxter]

Leigh Dyer wrote:
> andy baxter wrote:
>
> You don't need 1GB of RAM free to run the large Gigasound piano 
> samples in LinuxSampler -- it caches some of the sound data, but 
> leaves the rest on disk and accesses it only as required. I'm not sure 
> exactly how much RAM you'd require to run it (though LinuxSampler with 
> the Maestro patch loaded uses about 180MB on my system, FWIW), but it 
> should definitely work on a system with a total of 1GB of RAM.

OK, thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. I'm a bit surprised that it 
can work this way because I would have thought that hard disk latencies 
were too high to load samples on demand.

andy