Hi Folks. Wondering if there’s anyone out there who uses multiple instances of GP5 with multiple instances of preset SD3 kits ? I’m looking to have the ability to load large (up to 9GB in RAM) per song presets, and cater for live band touring requirements with up to 40 songs a gig.
Does anyone have any experience with this ?
If so, is it even possible ? What has been the traditional bottlenecks associated with such an endeavor ?
Appreciate anyone’s help, who’s been down this road.
I use SD3 in one of my instances of GP. I don’t use multiple instances of GP running multiple instances of SD3, though its just like any other virtual instrument in terms of your limitations: Processing power and RAM. So long as your hardware is capable, there shouldn’t be any issue.
edm11, appreciate your reply. How has the latency inducing experience been running large presets live through GP ? Did you notice much difference, compared to just using SD3 stand alone ?
Latency is defined by the settings in your audio device. GP itself doesn’t add latency.
I run my device at 44.1khz @ 128 samples and don’t notice the latency.
I just checked. My main kit there uses 7gb of RAM.
I could easily run 48khz @ 128 samples, but since I don’t need to improve the latency numbers there’s no need to add the extra processing strain.
The drummer in one of my bands used to use multiple drum plugins to mix and match - it’s not really much of a big deal.
Also, I don’t know about SuperiorDrummer (you’d have to ask them) but a lot of sample-based plugins just load a little bit of the sample into RAM and then do direct from disk streaming so they don’t really use that much RAM so the actual size of the sample on disk is not necessarily indicative of how much RAM is needed.
Also, if RAM does turn out to be an issue, predictive loading can be used to lower RAM requirements with some not unreasonable tradeoffs.