If anyone with a total of 8GB of RAM (like me) is curious as to what your loading options for this demo are, here you go:
According to the HW available RAM meter, I had a reading today (which varies sometimes by nearly 1GB for some reason
) of 7.5GB before loading the set. Loading just the front ranks with full releases (not the tremmed ranks) including the L/R front ranks and all sounds, disabling everything else (tremmed ranks, rear ranks) it easily loads in 16 bit consuming just over 4 GB, so plenty of memory to spare. It sounds nice!
Again, starting with 7.5 GB available per the HW meter, loading all front (not the tremmed ranks) and all rear ranks full releases, all sounds loaded and disable *tremmed* ranks, in 16 bit it just fits with 0.4GB to spare and it REEAALLY sounds nice!
So, it looks in order to load the front "non-tremmed" ranks, including rear ranks and all in full release and all sounds, you will need somewhere in the neighborhood of 7GB or RAM available, give or take + or - a few MB.
If you want to load the front and rear ranks like I did in example #2 here, and you're getting an initial reading of between 6.5 and 7GB prior to loading the set, try it and see what happens. It seems the HW meter is a bit conservative on actual available RAM as in my case it has read anywhere from a low of 6.3GB to over 7 on occasion (as it did today) and the set loaded and played just fine. My rule of thumb has been, once a given set is 50% loaded and you haven't yet used up 50% of the available RAM (or it's really close to 50%), it should load without issue.
Jiri, thanks so much for such a nice demo set!
Marc