Is There Any Way of Speeding up Legacy of Rock Loading Time?

[David]

Hi I’ve upgraded my pc and now have a 27...

Hi I’ve upgraded my pc and now have a 27 inch iMac 2020 3.8GhZ 8 core intel i7 with 64 Gb of ram yet the loading time of the Legacy of Rock is still really slow? Any suggestions of how this can be speeded up?

 

Cheers

 

BTW: Kits are absolutely stunning!!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

Reedy Boy

Hi I’ve upgraded my pc and now have a 27 inch iMac 2020 3.8GhZ 8 core intel i7 with 64 Gb of ram yet the loading time of the Legacy of Rock is still really slow? Any suggestions of how this can be speeded up?

 

Cheers

 

BTW: Kits are absolutely stunning!!

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

Reedy Boy

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

The type of enclosure that your drive is in could be your weakest link here. What type of enclosure is your SSD drive? USB or Thunderbolt?

Jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Brad]

In addition to all of the above; on the Settings > Libraries tab is the Disk Type set to HDD or SSD?

Do you still have the original location setup as a secondary path?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

Mac Studio M1 Max, RAM 64 GB, 1TB Drive, OSX 12.x/13.x and Windows 10 (VM)
DAW: Studio One Pro (always up to date)
DTX Express III (Extreme triggers), Nektar LX88
OWC Thunderbay Mini (4 X 1TB Sata SSD), Express 4M2 (4 X 2TB M.2 SSD), Envoy Express (1TB M.2 SSD)
Presonus Quantum, Faderport & Faderport 8
Black Lion Sparrow Mk2 A/D, FMR-RNP-RNC, MIDI Xpress 128, BM5A, KRK VXT4, Equator D5
2020 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Audio(mobile rig)

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Brad.

[pumpkinking]

On your iMac, pull down a free app from the App Store called “AmorphorusDiskMark”.  Once it is installed and open, then select the disk where your SD3 libraries live and run all tests (Just click on the All button).  It will take a few minutes, but then look at the “Read” column (specifically the SEQ1M QD8 and QD1 numbers) and you should see something like the attached (which was measured on my SD3 library SSD.

Those numbers are in MB/s (and they are sort of best case scenario, but probably reasonably close to real world).  So now look at the size of the library you are loading in the SD3 window, and divide it by the smaller of these two #s.  In my case, the amber kit is 10227 MB, and I divide that by 612.11 MB/s for SEQ1M QD1 Read score and I get 16 seconds.  The actual load time is 25 seconds, and the reason it is longer probably has to do with the details of how the libraries are stored and retrieved, but it should be within ~2X of the calculation.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

• This post was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by pumpkinking.

[David]

Thanks guys for all of the suggestions, I’ll take on board what you’ve said then I’ll see how things go after I’ve delved a bit deeper.

 

Cheers

 

Dave

Reedy Boy

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