10-24-2018, 12:35 AM
unable to leave well enough alone I took a crack at a "be all end all template." As a first try it's totally overkill. I think I have something like 80 patches or more loaded up and routed (and this is with some sacrifices). Even without the samples loaded into most of the patches my memory usage is something like 7GB, and I haven't even done anything with it yet.
As an experiment it's pretty humbling. I have 16GB physical memory available and this thing is using almost half of that just on start up. I think my next step would be to pare it down a bit... I approached it by assessing what I had come to use a lot of in my tracks and tried to find a way to stuff it as full as possible so everything was there. I'm learning that I still have a long way to go, but the upshot is that I have a good start on the "modular template" idea where a lot of things already have a potential home and some of the legwork is removed.
Another challenge I'm facing is the fact that I have to spread families and even individual instruments across different instances of Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 6 Player due to various limitations and compatibility issues. There are a couple Sforzando instances in there, too. All of which has resulted in the same quilted nature of my templates thus far.
As an experiment it's pretty humbling. I have 16GB physical memory available and this thing is using almost half of that just on start up. I think my next step would be to pare it down a bit... I approached it by assessing what I had come to use a lot of in my tracks and tried to find a way to stuff it as full as possible so everything was there. I'm learning that I still have a long way to go, but the upshot is that I have a good start on the "modular template" idea where a lot of things already have a potential home and some of the legwork is removed.
Another challenge I'm facing is the fact that I have to spread families and even individual instruments across different instances of Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 6 Player due to various limitations and compatibility issues. There are a couple Sforzando instances in there, too. All of which has resulted in the same quilted nature of my templates thus far.
