KVR Audio

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:59 pm

Yes, agree with all that Echoes. The main reason why I'll almost certainly get it. I just wish I owned 13 less other pianos.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:10 pm

What's the CPU usage like?

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:28 pm

aMUSEd wrote:What's the CPU usage like?

I haven't extensively tested it but I find it's much more memory hungry than CPU hungry.For example, the full C7 piano takes about 2GB+ of resident RAM. You can choose to thin the samples loaded though. Some of the other instruments use less of course.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:38 pm

I mainly just need to know it will play responsively without glitching with lots of voices and low latency

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:43 pm

bmrzycki wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:What's the CPU usage like?
I haven't extensively tested it but I find it's much more memory hungry than CPU hungry.For example, the full C7 piano takes about 2GB+ of resident RAM. You can choose to thin the samples loaded though. Some of the other instruments use less of course.

Does it use all that ram even if streamed from an SSD?

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:05 pm

Might be a good feature request to make MUCH lighter patches of the main instruments for hybrid use - for mangling purposes, a 2tb piano is kinda overkill. Would be handy for Trilian too.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:28 am

aMUSEd wrote:I mainly just need to know it will play responsively without glitching with lots of voices and low latency

I don't experience any glitching or responsiveness issues once all the associated samples are loaded. The nominal load of Reaper is 0.6% CPU. Playing large chords with fast passages of the C7 yields about a 2.4 % CPU load. My CPU is an older i7-3770. My latency is set to 2.5ms ASIO.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:28 am

Echoes in the Attic wrote:
bmrzycki wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:What's the CPU usage like?
I haven't extensively tested it but I find it's much more memory hungry than CPU hungry.For example, the full C7 piano takes about 2GB+ of resident RAM. You can choose to thin the samples loaded though. Some of the other instruments use less of course.
Does it use all that ram even if streamed from an SSD?

I'm loading Keyscape from an SSD and yes, it uses about 2+GB for the C7 library.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:06 am

bmrzycki wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:
bmrzycki wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:What's the CPU usage like?
I haven't extensively tested it but I find it's much more memory hungry than CPU hungry.For example, the full C7 piano takes about 2GB+ of resident RAM. You can choose to thin the samples loaded though. Some of the other instruments use less of course.
Does it use all that ram even if streamed from an SSD?
I'm loading Keyscape from an SSD and yes, it uses about 2+GB for the C7 library.

And you've turned on disk streaming or whatever the setting is?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:03 am

Does the boxed version come on DVD, BluRay or HD?

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:10 am

aMUSEd wrote:Does the boxed version come on DVD, BluRay or HD?

2 USB drives.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:13 am

Good - didn't fancy installing from tons of DVDs

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:17 am

aMUSEd wrote:Good - didn't fancy installing from tons of DVDs

I remember playing games from 5 1/4" floppy disk.....
I miss the time and games but not the floppy disk

Echoes in the Attic · Sat Sep 24, 2016 11:24 am

Aaaaand... purchased. However, finding wifi good enough to download it in Kathmandu.... well that might be a challenge.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:59 pm

I'm hovering on buying the boxed version as that is actually £30 cheaper in the UK than the download, which is ridiculous, and you have the backup then too.

Keyscape is available for download now!