[directmusic] Re: Survey
- From: "Paul Stroud" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:19:17 -0000
By the MS synth, I did mean the GM synth thing. I don't use it, so I was
writing the question from a vague memory.
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> [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Saul Bottcher
> Sent: 31 January 2003 13:06
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> Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
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>
> 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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