Pop Rock Kit takes 55 seconds to load its 303MB, Nashville Kit 65 seconds for 334MB.
This sounded a bit odd to me because when I load the default Pop/Rock kit at a 44.1kHz sampling rate, it loads in at 268MB. As a test, I changed the sampling rate in Reaper to 48kHz and loaded the default Pop/Rock kit. It loaded in at 303MB. I then loaded the Nashville EZX default kit and it loaded in at 334MB when it normally loads in at 293MB at 44.1kHz.
I can’t think of another scenario where those kits will load in at those higher RAM use numbers other than with a sampling rate of 48kHz.
Scott, you’re right. I hadn’t noticed the project I was working on was started a long while back and it was at 48kHz.
However, kits still take a very long time to load in 44.1kHz despite my high-spec machine and I don’t see why XLN’s Addictive Drums kits can load in five seconds or so and EZDrums in four or five times that. I see from the post above I’m not the only one who finds it poor, sorry.
Thanks Veech. Even more mysterious then with my Intel Sandy-bridge i7 3.4GHz, 4 cores, 8 threads, 6Gb RAM, and only one add-on MIDI pack.
Thanks Fretbuzz. Being a brand new machine, (I received it late April and installed all my stuff over a period of a few days after that), it shouldn’t be that fragmented. But I’ll check that and see just in case.
Thanks for responding. No, all the sounds are in the default location, i.e. along with the programs on C: drive.
NB: I saw in support that sample rates higher than 44.1 can cause load times to be 3 to 6 times longer. But I always use 44.1 so it’s not that.
Thanks again Scott.
Sorry to be a pain, but I printed out the readme file for the updates and it says “Exit this installer and install EZdrummer from the product DVD before proceeding with the update”. It then goes on to say that after that you should install the 32 bit version of the update first before then installing the 64 bit version. Do these instructions only apply to the update of the main program, i.e. not to the Latin Percussion, Nashville and Vintage rock add on packs?
I found that for some reason QuickTime won’t play the link properly, although Windows Media Player works fine and it plays ok directly in QuickTime in my own PC. It’s just an MP3 so I don’t know what the problem is and why it only happens if someone accesses the link using QuickTime.
