[directmusic] Re: Survey
- From: "Scott Morgan" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:45:34 -0800
I noticed having blank p-channels in a band can add a significant amount of
memory usage. related?
-Scott Morgan
http://Morganstudios.com
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From: "Todor Fay" <todor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 7:50 AM
Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
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> PS. I'll be out of office the next few days, so forgive me if I don't
> reply to any answers and questions on this topic.
>
> Todor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Todor Fay
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 7:49 AM
> To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
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> How big is the memory overhead that you are seeing with each Band Track?
> I'm surprised that it would be something substantial, so we should
> understand exactly what it's doing (and potentially report a bug to
> Microsoft) before people make a big change in their projects.
>
> Todor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Saul Bottcher
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:06 AM
> To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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