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by TylerE 1640 days ago
In those contexts samples are loaded once and then kept in RAM.
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zigzag312 1640 days ago
No, actually only first few dozen KB of each sample are usually preloaded into RAM. The rest is streamed from a SSD. One library of an orchestral section can have 100+ GB of samples. You wouldn't fit all sections in 128GB of RAM.
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TylerE 1640 days ago
I'm quite aware of the size of large libraries, I own a number of them.

Part of why I built my current machine with 64GB of ram

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