I finally decided on a course of action for HW (getting some midi keyboards and midifying just my pedalboard, vs midifying my old console, which would be way too complex) and last night I downloaded HW, St.Anne and the Prudhoe to see if my old dual p3-450 was going to be useable at all or if I would have to upgrade it right away.
I was quite surprised to see that with a latency of 20 the Mark Johnson's cut down St.Anne seemed to work fine (I tried using 'sweet little piano' over a sequencer playing to tax HW a bit) which means that I'll likely stick with my current hardware until PCI express becomes more available.
Given that my PC has only 512MB of RAM I am not able to use the 'full' St. Anne, and the 'cut down' sets available on the HW organ download page are a bit too cut down for my possibilities (I think the Mark Johnson's set I was using was created for PCs with 384MB, and loading it in mono doesn't seem to take even 300MB): how would I go in 'reducing' St.Anne to get something nice sounding that will fit (as MONO, don't need stereo) in 450 megs or so?
Is it 'simply' a case of looking with explorer at the sizes of the different rank folders and then commenting out rank entries in the .organ file while at the same time using the windows task manager to see when the memory used by HW approaches 450-500MB? Are there other approaches?
Obviously, if anybody has already done something like this I would be grateful if you could share your files (I currently have only the free mono St.Anne and the Prudhoe, although once I upgrade my PC I might spring for the Marcussen...
I was quite surprised to see that with a latency of 20 the Mark Johnson's cut down St.Anne seemed to work fine (I tried using 'sweet little piano' over a sequencer playing to tax HW a bit) which means that I'll likely stick with my current hardware until PCI express becomes more available.
Given that my PC has only 512MB of RAM I am not able to use the 'full' St. Anne, and the 'cut down' sets available on the HW organ download page are a bit too cut down for my possibilities (I think the Mark Johnson's set I was using was created for PCs with 384MB, and loading it in mono doesn't seem to take even 300MB): how would I go in 'reducing' St.Anne to get something nice sounding that will fit (as MONO, don't need stereo) in 450 megs or so?
Is it 'simply' a case of looking with explorer at the sizes of the different rank folders and then commenting out rank entries in the .organ file while at the same time using the windows task manager to see when the memory used by HW approaches 450-500MB? Are there other approaches?
Obviously, if anybody has already done something like this I would be grateful if you could share your files (I currently have only the free mono St.Anne and the Prudhoe, although once I upgrade my PC I might spring for the Marcussen...