If GigaStudio streams samples from the hard drive, what difference does the installed memory make?
Although GigaStudio does indeed stream samples from the hard drive, it does buffer a very small portion of each sample into the installed RAM. The reason for this that there is not a hard drive on the planet fast enough to begin streaming a sample instantly when you hit a key on the keyboard. GigaStudio buffers approximately 64K (roughly 1/5 of a second) of each sample into RAM to allow for instantaneous attack, and the rest of the sample subsequently streams from the hard drive. The beauty of this method is GigaStudio will use the same amount of RAM whether the samples are 5 seconds or 5 minutes each!
