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Will I see Aliens at Area 33? (oops, I did it again…..)

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  • Replied April 4, 2023 at 22:11 #3074243
    drumjack52
    Participant

    Don’t blame Toontrack for your supposedly poor download speeds. Get with you ISP on this. Are you using a direct wired connection or wireless? 13 hours for a download? Unless you’re on 56K dialup that kind of slow speed isn’t happening.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied April 4, 2023 at 22:16 #3074248
    chris harbin
    Participant

    Hey Quark! Making any Latinum? (grin)

    It’s a LAN. But yeah, they want booku bucks for an upgrade, and 99.9% of the time, what I have is fine.

    Not sure what “blaming toontrack” is about, I’m just happy to get on board with the new alien site 🙂

    Replied April 4, 2023 at 22:24 #3074251
    chris harbin
    Participant

    Actually, I just thought of a “question” question, should I think about going to 64 GB of ram vs. 32?

    Replied April 4, 2023 at 22:51 #3074270
    Mark King
    Participant

    32 should be fine but it depends on what you are doing. If you are running a DAW with lots of instruments that load to ram then yes. If it’s sd3 then big kits are only about 4gig but can be as big as you want if you keep adding pieces. I use 32gig which is fine for me but I know people who work with orchestration can have hundreds of tracks so need a lot of memory.

    SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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    Replied April 4, 2023 at 23:06 #3074282
    chris harbin
    Participant

    Thanks, yeah it’s kinda a passing thought. For me I’d have to do DDR-5 (Ryzen 7900x) so a bit more expensive.

    I am hitting around 40% which my projects with F.O.R. so it’s no big.

    Replied April 5, 2023 at 11:53 #3074571
    chris harbin
    Participant

    The Aliens have now invaded the home world!

    Glorious 😉

    Replied April 5, 2023 at 22:13 #3075272
    drumjack52
    Participant
    chris harbin wrote:

    Hey Quark! Making any Latinum? (grin)

    It’s a LAN. But yeah, they want booku bucks for an upgrade, and 99.9% of the time, what I have is fine.

    Not sure what “blaming toontrack” is about, I’m just happy to get on board with the new alien site 🙂

    Who wants big bucks for an upgrade? Upgrade of what? More ram won’t help your download speeds. For that matter what is your actual problem here? Your answers aren’t making any sense.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied April 11, 2023 at 02:33 #3079687
    Ken Spence
    Participant
    chris harbin wrote:

    Hey Quark! Making any Latinum? (grin)

    It’s a LAN. But yeah, they want booku bucks for an upgrade, and 99.9% of the time, what I have is fine.

    Not sure what “blaming toontrack” is about, I’m just happy to get on board with the new alien site 🙂

    Hay Chris

    Have same issues with download speeds here.

    I have a buddy that has that new satellite thing and is getting download speeds of 200+ and even with two people streaming for their work, the $1800.00 equipment cost and a bill of $125.00 per month seems a bit high to me. Considering they only use about 15% of that.

    My 15dn/10up and unlimited data cost me $45/month. This opens up my budget for SD3 add-ons.

    Computer memory upgrades will not help your internet speeds BUT will certainly be beneficial for your system as a hole. When the OS runs out of memory it “swaps out” memory to the Hard Drives. So if your machine doesn’t have to do that, all the better for SD3 and any other program that is running like your DAW.
    I’m running an I9/10 core hyper-thread with 32 gig (ddr-5) onboard with appropriate cooling and NO problems. My previous machine was an I5/16gig and it struggled to keep up. It  finally smoked and i blame it on CPU size because it was always pinned.

    Moral of the story: buy the biggest engine you can (CPU) with an appropriate gas tank (memory) for the job at hand. The bigger the trunk-space the better (HDD)

    If your driving a laptop well do the best you can…..

    Cheers
    Ken


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: Windows 10

    Cheers Ken
    SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
    And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

    • This post was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Ken Spence.
    Replied April 11, 2023 at 03:13 #3079703
    drumjack52
    Participant
    Mark King wrote:

    32 should be fine but it depends on what you are doing. If you are running a DAW with lots of instruments that load to ram then yes. If it’s sd3 then big kits are only about 4gig but can be as big as you want if you keep adding pieces. I use 32gig which is fine for me but I know people who work with orchestration can have hundreds of tracks so need a lot of memory.

    Just like money you can never have too much ram. I regularly use Death & Darkness with the DW kit and load everything into ram which takes over 13 gig. I don’t like to stream things if I can help it. And also regularly bang right into 32 gig so the 48 gig I have installed helps big time.

    Gigabit internet on Verizon FIOS is the way I run. Love the fast download speeds. All wired; no wireless anything. Satellite internet is way slower and not dependable. At least I no longer have to deal with 56k dialup.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

    Jack
    aka musicman691 on other forums
    Superior Drummer 3.4.0
    Area 33 1.0.0
    Death and Darkness 1.0.1
    PT 2021.6
    OSX 10.13.6
    3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram

    Replied April 15, 2023 at 23:01 #3082540
    Ken Spence
    Participant

    56k dial=up

    Notice I said dial”=”up

    That meant that you were up for 56 hours to download 1 meg of text file.  And DON’T go over the 2meg limit cause that will cost you BIG dollars. It was bad enough we were paying $79.00 for 2 meg/month YES I SAID IT. “per month”, and that was when the internet wasn’t even available across Canada.  Only Nova Scotia and Ontario.

    WOW Feb 1990…..

    Oh and that was on my intel 8086 machine. 8bit buss not 16,32 or 64.


    Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
    Operating system: Windows 10

    Cheers Ken
    SD 3.3.6 on Windows 10 | Cubase 11
    And a new Apple air laptop OS 15.5

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