sonicblue wrote:DJKeys wrote:That is not correct. The Piano Library Samples in all the Nord instruments are stored in Flash RAM, not computer memory. That is why they are all instantly available on boot-
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I'm affraid you're wrong because RAM memory is temporary and loaded each time the operating system is turned on. So the sounds must be saved somewhere permanently in a storage memory and that is this 1GB of flash memory in the Electro 6. Clavia doesn't publish information about RAM used in Nords... They only publish information about the storage flash memory (but this is not RAM!)
For the third time, I will put it bluntly: You are wrong.
The storage used is NOT regular “Flash” SSD storage. It is a special, extremely expensive kind of Flash called “Flash RAM”. It is NOT RAM, but a kind of Flash storage that keeps its content, but can be read at speeds similar to RAM speeds. The trade off is that it is extremely slow to WRITE to, and it is extremely expensive.
Other systems run like computers, where a computer OS runs on a processor, and when you switch patches, it loads the samples needed from the SSD into RAM and plays them from there. These machines typically take a few minutes to start up.
The Nord and some other systems don’t work that way. They don’t have the CPU/RAM/controller/storage structure, but rather run a system where nothing needs to be “loaded”. All engines are available constantly and immediately, and all samples are read directly from special storage chips which are orders of magnitude faster than regular Flash. That is why the Nord takes a few seconds to turn on — basic function check, check for calibration, and go.