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Tones2
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| Sister_George wrote: | This is a really interesting thread...I'm also pondering which drum solution to get.
The thing that I find scary is the RAM usage. I have 2GB of RAM, but it seems even a basic kit may swallow up a large portion of that. Once you add in all the other bits and pieces in use, I'm not sure how workable BFD would be for me. Anyone know what sort of RAM usage I'd be looking at for just a smallish standard kit? |
Hard to say. If it's a smaller kit and you don't use a lot of velocity layers, drum hits (left, right, ec) nor different effects (flams, rolls, etc) it may consume less than 500MB - maybe. Of course, BFD does stream from disk and DFHS will only load the actual drums hits used in the song, so you can "manage" memory in various ways with both. Still, if you have other large sample sets loaded at the same time that don't stream from disk you may run into problems even with 2GB - and going beyond that in WinXP doesn't really help all that much eaither given that WinXP can't really address more than 2GB (well, there is an option to load the operating system components into memory above 2GB, but that's been flakey at best).
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akisd28
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With 2GB I don't think you'll have any problems running BFD - at least I don't have. I can even use a Bardstown Bosendorfer or a Vintaudio Yamaha C7 piano in Kontakt at the same time. Keep in mind that Kontakt streams from disk as well, though, which helps is this situation, but a lot of RAM is necessary nevertheless.
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Brock
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| Sister_George wrote: | This is a really interesting thread...I'm also pondering which drum solution to get.
The thing that I find scary is the RAM usage. I have 2GB of RAM, but it seems even a basic kit may swallow up a large portion of that. Once you add in all the other bits and pieces in use, I'm not sure how workable BFD would be for me. Anyone know what sort of RAM usage I'd be looking at for just a smallish standard kit? |
The kit I use in DFHS is ~2.6GB if I load the whole thing in. Since it only loads the used hits into memory, it only ends up using about 700MB into RAM.
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reds
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Seeing as this thread's still alive  here's the second tune I've been working on. Again, BFD played via TD6 Vdrums.
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