derek holzer wrote:
Hi Patrick,
patrick wrote:
how big are the samples?
+- 2 mb each sample
A "brute force" approach would be to load all the samples into RAM with arrays. You're talking about +/- 600 mB of data if I understand right. You could get away with it if you had a Gig of RAM I think. I don't use Xgroove for sample playback, I prefer to work with tabread4~ since it eats less resources and isn't as dodgy.
Oh wait, forget about the 32-bit expansion! Or is it only 24? Anyway, PD expands your audio to a greater bit-depth (if necessary) to do the 4-point interpolation with [tabread4~]. Maybe for so much audio this isn't such a good idea! I'd still recommend trying to make a SoundFont out of it. Is it necessary to have EVERY note sampled, or could you spread it out a bit by skipping every Nth note and using the sampler to pitch things up or down a bit?
d.