SynthMaker

save more memory

Archive · 2005 2 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

dasdeck ·

it would be nice if synced copys of modules do onnly need the mem of one module, as they share almost everything, but maybe its not worth the trouble as memory consumption is small in most cases, but hey, just a suggestion.

another thing is, if data holding objects like wave file, bitmap etc, hold the same data (determinated by file name/path for example) synthmaker could automaticly load only one instance for the data. an alternative would be to mention it in the manual, this teaches people to "program" more mem friendely. But in some cases the structures may just be better to read if you make multiple bitmap components containing the same data each.

D3CK

Shifrin ·

I remember talking about memory usage a while back, maybe a search will lead to some more infos 🙂

I think SM will make copies of all 'data' contained (bitmaps/wavs) in each synchronised copy of a module. You could always have a top level module containing all bitmap data for example, then use wireless connectors in the modules, so you'd only have *one* copy of the bitmap data.

Then again I could have this wrong 😉

Shif.

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