mr_debauch wrote:again... on the MV and previous MPCs... that ram was dedicated TO SAMPLE TIME ONLY... the MV 512mb was just for sample and audio tracks.... the 2500 had 128mb for samples....
those machines had an OS that did NOT cut into that 512 or 128... you had that full amount just for recording audio.
saying "2gb is okay" means NOTHING unless you know how the system will use the ram... why is it that in 2017, 2gb of ram is not enough for your music computer? because that 2gb will not be dedicated to JUST the samples within the daw... your OS, the services running in the background, the DAW, etc.. all that will be running and loaded into that ram.
2 gigs of system ram has not been enough since the year 2000. HOWEVER... 2 gigs of dedicated sample time is not terrible. PLUS, who knows if the new MPCs will stream audio tracks to the memory card or hard drive.... you need to know how the system is set up to know if a spec figure is good enough. remember, you can record multiple hours on an SP-303 with a 64 mb smart media card inserted.
I disagree wholeheartedly about MV RAM use and what was capable in 2000 with a modest system on PC. RAM is dedicated to PROJECT on the MV including Audio tracks up to 8. (edit - I see you did state that for MV was sample and audio - my bad)
Still it is a lot of RAM for a sampler compared to other samplers. I have no idea if it is ok or not because we need to see efficiency in action. I never said it was ok, just that it was alot for a sampler and we have yet to see if they code right or not.
Doing multiple audio only tracks in a DAW was good for more than 8 tracks with 2gb RAM. My 2000 DAW had 1gb and did 8 fine.
Yes I wholeheartedly agree that the OS and DAW software needs to be coded to use RAM efficiently and your mileage may vary depending on efficiency of code on the device.
The point is that we don't know if it uses RAM for OS also. Also don't know efficiency of coding. I did think I read in that 20 page pdf Fanu posted that it has the ability to stream from disk or SD card.
I just think it premature to freak out about 2gb RAM when we don't really know how it will take advantage of that RAM and that there are no other samplers on the market using that much that are getting a huge buzz about how awesome 2gb is or how junk 2gb is. Maybe we should find one and speculate. Will just be speculation though.
Not entirely directed at mr_debauch and not meaning to single out your post. My original statement was in response to the original concern that 2gb would not nearly be enough.
