Loading times ?

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:52 am

Hi Guys.
Can somone please tell me what the loading times are for 256MB of data on the M3.
I'm just looking at all my options here because I may buy one to develop Sample Libraries for it.

Kind Regards.
James.

kid_nepro_2002 · Post by **kid_nepro_2002** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:23 am

Hi Sharp,

It's hard to give an exact time because the loading time is affected by the size of the samples. In other words, 256 - 1 meg samples will load faster then 512 half meg samples. I can tell you that in the libraries that I have developed it takes about two minutes to load 60 megs worth of small sized samples. The average sample is way less then one meg. Another factor is if you time slice, further breaking up a sample loop into many parts, that will also slow down the speed.

I have not had a chance to test this, but the USB stick or flash drive that you use to load might be another factor in loading times. Jerry could probably give us more info on that.

My strategy has been to keep my libraries under 64 megs so potential customers will not have to own the expansion board to have access. I would say it would probably take at least 5-6 minutes to load all 256 megs even if your samples are relatively large in size.

Hope this helps!

Proton

www.kidnepro.com

r12 · Post by **r12** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:41 pm

it take between 8-10 mn to load 64+256 MB of samples with various sizes (from dozen of KB to few MB)

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:24 pm

in other post here (not rembember which one) someone wrote that to start up the M3 Xpanded with the autoload of the 3 EXB-PCM takes about 3 minutes.

each EXB-PCM requires about 64MByte of RAM to load.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:20 pm

About 3 minutes for me, and I have just the standard "EXPANDED" upgrade.

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:38 pm

Thanks guys.
That's not too bad at all. Certainly many times faster than a Triton.

Thanks.
Sharp.

sani · Post by **sani** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:01 pm

I would just point out a IMHO significant difference in loading times.
The M3 loads the factory provided expansions significantly faster than usual sample/multisamples.
So, if you boot the m3 with autoload of all three expansions, it will do it in about 3 minutes. But if you load your own samples with comparable size, the loading time will be nowhere near 3 minutes. It will take more time. That's at least my experience.

Diego · Post by **Diego** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:34 pm

Hi Sharp!

Using a USB2.0 memory stick, it takes about 2min, maybe a little more, but not that much.
It loads EXB1,2 and 3; the EXB4 is not on my M3, yet.

Regards

r12 · Post by **r12** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:30 pm

right, at equal sizes, loading / saving pcg, sng and ex pcm is faster than loading / saving samples datas

Post by **Sharp** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:21 pm

Thanks guys.
Just placed my order

Regards.
Sharp.

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:15 pm

First signs of a Choir Sample Library I'm working on for the M3

http://www.irishacts.com/m3/choir-preview.mp3

Optimised for the M3, and powered by the same recording sessions I did for the huge OASYS ASSAULT library.

Regards.
Sharp.

r12 · Post by **r12** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:49 pm

great sound

what is size of samples ?

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:22 pm

A very rough guess, and I mean very rough, I would guess at around 130MB.
Honestly though it's too soon to say for sure.

Regards.
Sharp.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:36 pm

Link down?
I can't get it to play.

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:46 pm

Hi Stephen.

Try it again.
I didn't remove the file, so maybe you just caught the server at a bad moment.

Regards.
Sharp.

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