[directmusic] Re: Survey
- From: "Saul Bottcher" <saul.bottcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:06:15 -0500
Hi,
> Our PC versions play everything back through the MS synth
Stupid question - does anybody not do this?
> I've never had any complaints about the CPU hit except when I had a bug
> which was something to do with my band being redefined every time any
> segments started, which was solved by defining a global band at the start
> and taking the band tracks out of all other segments (you could adjust
> individual instruments as necessary if you wanted to of course).
If your project has a large number of segments, stripping out the band
tracks can also save you considerable disk/RAM: I was working on a project
where dynamic loading wasn't acceptable, and for simplicity I decided to use
a single band for each song. When I stripped the band tracks out of the
segments, if I remember correctly, it was saving *per segment* - and I had
about 300 per song. Since my RAM budget was only 4MB to begin with, it was
a pretty crucial difference.
And on that topic - is there, or will there ever be, a way to create
(within a segment) a *reference* to a band, rather than pointlessly
duplicating it? DM allows the abstraction of linked parts, why not linking
of other objects? Updating all your bands after making a single change is a
real joke! Plus, I don't know how many people have used part-linking as a
space-saver, but the results can be significant. With some people working
under tighter budgets (*cough* X-Box) it would seem like any measure that
saves wasted space would be a great feature.
Saul.
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