Re: [LAU] piano samples

From: andy baxter <andy@email-addr-hidden-online.co.uk>
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 09:42:17 EET

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
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