Garry
Senior Member
With the help of some kindly forum contributors, I recently was able to get my VERY modest template (only around just 100 tracks) running, which was crashing my system, even though I have a recent machine with reasonable specs (2017 27 inch iMAC, 32Gb RAM, around 4GHz processor), although I don’t have SSD or slaves or VEPro. I also found this YouTube video which included all of the steps I’d taken, with some additional ideas I hadn’t. Ok, I had it working, but still the load time was slow, and I wasn’t entirely happy with the setup.
Then I decided to set up QuickLoad. With all my instruments categorised (which was VERY quick to do, compared to setting up a template), I can select an instrument in about the same time it would take me to navigate to a track in a template. I think I much prefer this, and don’t need different templates, or have long load/save times.
So, what am I missing - I see that lots of people go to the effort of setting up very large templates, needing slaves and additional software to run it. What is the benefit of all of that, rather than just using QuickLoad to get what you need when you need it?
I dont’ think I’m going back to templates, but just wondered if there’s something I’ll miss that might make me rethink it’s worth the effort to set up templates, and invest in SSDs, slaves, VEPro, etc - given all of that though, the advantages would need to be pretty impressive, no?
Then I decided to set up QuickLoad. With all my instruments categorised (which was VERY quick to do, compared to setting up a template), I can select an instrument in about the same time it would take me to navigate to a track in a template. I think I much prefer this, and don’t need different templates, or have long load/save times.
So, what am I missing - I see that lots of people go to the effort of setting up very large templates, needing slaves and additional software to run it. What is the benefit of all of that, rather than just using QuickLoad to get what you need when you need it?
I dont’ think I’m going back to templates, but just wondered if there’s something I’ll miss that might make me rethink it’s worth the effort to set up templates, and invest in SSDs, slaves, VEPro, etc - given all of that though, the advantages would need to be pretty impressive, no?
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