28 May
2012
28 May
'12
10:21 a.m.
On 05/28/2012 10:04 AM, Leigh Dyer wrote:
On 28/05/12 5:52 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
right. If you don't have solid-state storage just be sure to ask your
sysadmin to disable HDD power-saving. A spin-up procedure can take a few
seconds and the immediate attack may be longer than most samples.
Cheers!
robin
RAM is the crux. You want to keep all the samples
in memory so that they
can play was soon as you press a key without waiting for data from the
disk. But you're absolutely right: Never use lossy formats for
instrument samples.
Why do you want to keep the whole sample in memory? As long as enough of
it is in memory to handle the immediate attack, it should be fine to
stream the rest of it. I believe that's what LinuxSampler does, and it
works very well with the 2GB Salamander Grand Piano, without needing to
take up 2GB of RAM.