well, to divide my quote into 2 statements doesn't leave much of it's content...
Sorry, I supposed that anyone would read your whole post before, but I agree that the best it´s to quote the whole content.
Samples in the Giga format are divided into attack and sustain parts, so they can be played from a small disk buffer. An efficient solution.
To convert them into a single program that's loaded into memory is a stupid approach - imho. Use Giga if you want to use those libs. Period.
Interesting, Halion also loads the first part of each sample "preload to ram", that seems the same method. The "preload to ram" can be adjusted to the user like. Maybe would be a good solution for the STS memory limit bug.
if Scope4Live uses that stuff because it fit's his taste, then it's perfectly ok.
But it's not for realism sake, at least regarding the piano.
We may completely disagree about that specific item, no problem.
Instead of a 2 DVD monster piano I bet a GEM Realpiano expander for $500 beats it hands down in that domain, and that thingy has probably no more than a 128 MB sample set onboard.
Well, I have no idea about how sounds GEM, but in the best case, it´s another big piece of hardware. If those 128mb sounds so fantastic, I would like to have that on my STS-4000, be sure.
mho the (quite common) method to convert Giga libs to other formats is a misjudgement of quality in relation to size. People expect 'better' samples, because the data set is larger, which is plain nonsense.
As an experienced sampler user you know that the quality of a program hasn't much to do with it's size
I´m not an experienced sampler user at all. In fact I think that most users don´t have idea of how to get a good sounding program with low size. what a musician wants is to make music, not to make good sampler programs. So it´s more practical to be in the format that allow you work with diferent libraries, just load and play.
Well, I suspect what you are thinking at this point. Most people is lazy and ignorant on this purposes, but what´s better, sell to ignorants? or bankrupty with computer nerds? Do you understand me?
I don´t want to be negative, but be realistic, Xite-1 don´t offer nothing new, just more dsp power, that will not attract new users.
I understand your point, but the market is where it is, even most things are not the most logical, like big size libraries, that´s what people think, and you will not convence them to buy a Xite to run an STS with a 128mb piano.
Moreover, the power of the Xite-1 it´s simply as exagerated as the 2DVD for a piano, and you must agree that can be made better music a guy that knows how to with a 14 dsp, than a guy that doesn´t know with a Xite. But the fact is that people pay for 140dsp, and most for using 2DVD pianos.
I can't even tell if convolution can take advantage of (hardware) DSP based processing at all - I simply lack the math insights - but for shure you cannot make a not even fully released product dependening on something that 'might' work in the future.
Audio is a pretty slow type of signal anyway - if they can handle > 50 masterverbs over the PCI-e bus, there may indeed be few reason for doing it onboard.
I don´t think that giga and convolution are things for the future. Are things that are used a lot just now, independently they are a good or not choice from a technical point of view.
Audio is a pretty slow type of signal anyway - if they can handle > 50 masterverbs over the PCI-e bus, there may indeed be few reason for doing it onboard.
Well, what I don´t understand is why they use the PC RAM, since the devices that use it are working on the card, or in this case in the RACK. It seems more complicated to make things work like they actually do than to use a dedicated memory beside the chips.
I have read that on that moment could be because the ram was expensive that moment. If they leave all like it is, and continue thinking like they did in the past, there are posibilities that the same problems return (financial). Hope will not occur, but I think that the enviroment of this platform don´t like the masses needings. I respect it and understand it, but other companies think about building what the buyer want to buy.
SC could do it a little bit, at least.
