Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 06:11
I'm currently running Resolume on a Athlon 750 with a Geforce 2 duel head, triggering using a Roland Groovebox 505, and an old Yamaha DX7.
Once I got around the fact I had to run the video window in monitor 1 to get the fast DirectDraw smooth playback, I was still very wary of using Resolume at all, simply because it was thrashing my hard disk. Look at your hard disk light next time you use Resolume - it doesn't go out!
Being an old DOS dinosaur, I decided to bring out RAMDISK.SYS (an old 16-bit program which creates "vitual" disk drives out of RAM) only to find it has a 32MB bottleneck!! Never would have guessed that back in '93.
There is an application though which is called RamDisk and it can be downloaded for free from: http://www.cenatek.com/ It allows you to to create a RAM drive up to 2GB, and also has 32-bit access. (98/ME/NT/2000) It also allows a "save image" option which dumps it to a hard disk when you shut it down and vice-versa.
The demo "restricts" you to 100 uses, although it can be reinstalled and revitalised. I'd highly recommend using it (or something simular) as your poor little disk drives might start developing bad sectors; especailly if you take your machine to drum and bass gigs with 2000watt sub stacks like I do. Which brings up another point. Bass frequencies can play havoc with hard disk platters if the wrong harmonic is hit; so you want to absolutly minimise hard disk action. I've already lost a disk from recording gigs.
If you run out of hard disk space (I'm only giving it 320MB) you can always multi-task to explorer, delete the folders you have used, and drag some more across... because Resolume is running from "RAM" it doesn't slow down too much - and if you are MIDI controlling, the performance goes on.
Sooo.... maybe in version 2, can we see some clip caching in RAM?! Most people have 256+ of RAM these days, so loading a deck of 160MB of AVI's shouldn't be too much of an issue for the majority.
Wikid app though. Feels raw and to the point.
Once I got around the fact I had to run the video window in monitor 1 to get the fast DirectDraw smooth playback, I was still very wary of using Resolume at all, simply because it was thrashing my hard disk. Look at your hard disk light next time you use Resolume - it doesn't go out!
Being an old DOS dinosaur, I decided to bring out RAMDISK.SYS (an old 16-bit program which creates "vitual" disk drives out of RAM) only to find it has a 32MB bottleneck!! Never would have guessed that back in '93.
There is an application though which is called RamDisk and it can be downloaded for free from: http://www.cenatek.com/ It allows you to to create a RAM drive up to 2GB, and also has 32-bit access. (98/ME/NT/2000) It also allows a "save image" option which dumps it to a hard disk when you shut it down and vice-versa.
The demo "restricts" you to 100 uses, although it can be reinstalled and revitalised. I'd highly recommend using it (or something simular) as your poor little disk drives might start developing bad sectors; especailly if you take your machine to drum and bass gigs with 2000watt sub stacks like I do. Which brings up another point. Bass frequencies can play havoc with hard disk platters if the wrong harmonic is hit; so you want to absolutly minimise hard disk action. I've already lost a disk from recording gigs.
If you run out of hard disk space (I'm only giving it 320MB) you can always multi-task to explorer, delete the folders you have used, and drag some more across... because Resolume is running from "RAM" it doesn't slow down too much - and if you are MIDI controlling, the performance goes on.
Sooo.... maybe in version 2, can we see some clip caching in RAM?! Most people have 256+ of RAM these days, so loading a deck of 160MB of AVI's shouldn't be too much of an issue for the majority.
Wikid app though. Feels raw and to the point.
chears