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Originally posted by Diki:
That's always a good question. 'Closed' arrangers and keyboards have their faults, but when they say 128 voices, you get 128 voices, no matter WHAT sound is being used... (and yes, I know a four element voice uses four voices!)

I'm just curious, but when CPU overloads occur (from using some very intensive VSTi's and effects, etc.) does the MS multi-task, and only close down on the overloaded VSTi, or does the whole thing glitch out?


Like always you Diki continue talk without any know how...

Do you think that one keyboard with 128 Voice you are able to use this all voices for the sounds??
Read well how the embedded DSP are working: http://www.lionstracs.com/download/software/FIR97082voices.pdf
when all is running, 66 voice are used for the system and the remain 62 voice for play the sounds.
Then: IF you use stereo sounds, it mean double voices to use, press one chord with 4 notes, it mean another 8 voice sucked from the 62 available.
start to play one midifile/ complex styles and then Hold the Sustain pedal too...

On MS with AMD dualcore 5200+, under the COMBI mode, ( 8 layered sounds) connect to 8 different PC engines: sampler, ASIO Hosts..I have played about 800 Voices, then start to overload the CPU and some asio host dropped some notes, BUT never crashed!

On the PC system all depend on the hardware used, CPU, RAM, more power you have, more voices and application you can open in realtime.

Maybe you tough about the Oasys limitation, software/hardware embedded issue..the MS is a totally different concept.