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0 pointszigzag3124y ago0 comments

No, actually only first few dozen KB of each sample are usually preloaded into RAM. The rest is streamed from a SSD. One library of an orchestral section can have 100+ GB of samples. You wouldn't fit all sections in 128GB of RAM.

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TylerE4y ago

I'm quite aware of the size of large libraries, I own a number of them.

Part of why I built my current machine with 64GB of ram

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0 pointszigzag3124y ago0 comments

No, actually only first few dozen KB of each sample are usually preloaded into RAM. The rest is streamed from a SSD. One library of an orchestral section can have 100+ GB of samples. You wouldn't fit all sections in 128GB of RAM.

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TylerE4y ago

I'm quite aware of the size of large libraries, I own a number of them.

Part of why I built my current machine with 64GB of ram

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