Chrisulrich
Member
Dear Anyone.
I'm working in 32-bit because I've got disability software that never got updated so I have to watch out for memory usage, or the whole thing just crashes and burns and takes your work with it!
Most modern VSTs seem to be monotimbral, dunno WHY, but that seems to be the case. I've got Alchemy 32-bit which comes with a ton of presets which must be taking up loads of RAM. (I'm assuming that, I'm not good enough to know for certain!) If I have 2 instance loaded for 2 sounds, does each instance load up the entire set of presets so I've got everything filling up RAM TWICE, or do they share the same library? Second, associated question....
I've got something called Chainer, which lets you load VSTs into it but only counts as one VST itself. I got it thinking if I wanted several instances of - just for example - Alchemy, I could load them into that then have one MIDI channel playing the lot, so I could blend the sounds together in Chainer and have the unified sound being played by one midi note (or several if I wanted a chord, sorta thing!) Or have them as separate tracks in one VST like it's multitimbral. On my odd DAW, you only get 8 top slots. Each slot has 15 sub-slots. So you only get 8 instruments if they're monotimbral, but 126, of course, if they're multitimbral. (Or any combination in between!) I was hoping Chainer would help me escape that limitation. Thing IS - I'm getting odd crashes using Chainer and I'm wondering if when you load a VST you load all its patches at once WITH it, so all the patches I'm not using are there in memory clogging the system up. Anybody know if that would be the case? Trying to work out what's causing the crashing.
Sorry for 2 questions, I'll split this into 2 posts if a mod. tells me to!
Yours with thanks
Chris.
I'm working in 32-bit because I've got disability software that never got updated so I have to watch out for memory usage, or the whole thing just crashes and burns and takes your work with it!
Most modern VSTs seem to be monotimbral, dunno WHY, but that seems to be the case. I've got Alchemy 32-bit which comes with a ton of presets which must be taking up loads of RAM. (I'm assuming that, I'm not good enough to know for certain!) If I have 2 instance loaded for 2 sounds, does each instance load up the entire set of presets so I've got everything filling up RAM TWICE, or do they share the same library? Second, associated question....
I've got something called Chainer, which lets you load VSTs into it but only counts as one VST itself. I got it thinking if I wanted several instances of - just for example - Alchemy, I could load them into that then have one MIDI channel playing the lot, so I could blend the sounds together in Chainer and have the unified sound being played by one midi note (or several if I wanted a chord, sorta thing!) Or have them as separate tracks in one VST like it's multitimbral. On my odd DAW, you only get 8 top slots. Each slot has 15 sub-slots. So you only get 8 instruments if they're monotimbral, but 126, of course, if they're multitimbral. (Or any combination in between!) I was hoping Chainer would help me escape that limitation. Thing IS - I'm getting odd crashes using Chainer and I'm wondering if when you load a VST you load all its patches at once WITH it, so all the patches I'm not using are there in memory clogging the system up. Anybody know if that would be the case? Trying to work out what's causing the crashing.
Sorry for 2 questions, I'll split this into 2 posts if a mod. tells me to!
Yours with thanks
Chris.