On 30 Oct 2009 at 21:52, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:44 PM, "David W. Fenton" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How is this helpful? Finale is, and always has been, one of the most > > RAM-efficient applications I have ever run. And the files are quite > > small, too, relatively speaking. > > > > Is Sibelius such a memory hog that it can't run well in 3GBs of RAM? > > Loading up a full orchestra or wind band score with full garritan > sounds?
And 4GBs is sufficient and 3GBs is not? The extra GB of available memory space may or may not get you enough headroom for easy work with a particular large ensemble played via Garritan. But what if you add ten instruments? Eventually, you're going to hit the limit again. The question is not how much RAM Finale/Sibelius uses, but how sell your Garritan instruments player uses memory, since that's what's serving Finale/Sibelius for the processing of the sounds. This is a really, really minor feature, and one that's likely to be available with every Windows app once Windows 7 becomes the target distribution platform (which it will within the next couple of years). There's a very small population of users for whom this is relevant: 1. users of Garritan with large scores. 2. who are running on Windows 7. This is something for the Sibelius folks to bury in the checklist of nice features, and advantage they'll have for about a year. It's not a Finale-killer, as Henry characterised it, seems to me. (and, of course, I'm working on the assumption that you've correctly identified and described the feature that Henry was referring to) -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
