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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby ChillOnTheSun » 03 Mar 2018, 16:19

Well, that's the reason I sold my Kurzweil Forte with FlashPlay and 19GB of sample memory. I spent endless weeks with browsing and checking all the samples, countless nights to figure out how to master out all possibilities...then I bought the Stage 3 and only enjoyed the playing for I had no time before. Sometimes less is more.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Duplobaustein » 10 Mar 2018, 23:42

It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby analogika » 11 Mar 2018, 15:13

Duplobaustein wrote:It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.

True, yes: the inherent structural limitations of the Stage series means it can get away with a lot less, as its whole approach offers (and thus requires) a lot less complexity.

If you need that much sample capacity, you’re probably going to want to layer a bunch of one-shot samples on single notes, along with various effect synths and other such things. The Stage series simply isn’t your product. A Kronos is. (Or, in my case, as I dislike the Kronos’ interface, it’s a Stage for everything i can get away with, and a MacBook Pro running Mainstage for everything else.)
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Duplobaustein » 11 Mar 2018, 20:28

analogika wrote:
Duplobaustein wrote:It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.

True, yes: the inherent structural limitations of the Stage series means it can get away with a lot less, as its whole approach offers (and thus requires) a lot less complexity.

If you need that much sample capacity, you’re probably going to want to layer a bunch of one-shot samples on single notes, along with various effect synths and other such things. The Stage series simply isn’t your product. A Kronos is.


Or any other workstation.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Duplobaustein » 03 May 2018, 22:53

Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Mr_-G- » 03 May 2018, 23:19

I think you read wrong. 150 GB on board, then you can *buy* another 50 GB, but there is no info on what would be the user sample space.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby analogika » 03 May 2018, 23:27

Duplobaustein wrote:Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...

A year later, and 4000€.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Duplobaustein » 03 May 2018, 23:29

Mr_-G- wrote:I think you read wrong. 150 GB on board, then you can *buy* another 50 GB, but there is no info on what would be the user sample space.



This information obviously changed. :?

Still it crushes everything to pieces that claims single digit GBs are state of the art.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby Duplobaustein » 03 May 2018, 23:30

analogika wrote:
Duplobaustein wrote:Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...

A year later, and 4000€.


So? It isn't roughly a hundred times more what Nord offers? In a Synth...

It seems as the 50GBs are for additional or user samples. This is really huge.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?

Postby kbrkr » 04 May 2018, 01:40

I rather they use the Korg SSD Sample Streaming technology (ala Kronos). You wouldn't be bound by memory at all.
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