HomSpace Forum

Hi all,

I’m looking forward to trying this project out! I haven’t seen any info on maximum patch size, does anyone know the limit? I imagine with larger samples the load into ram would take a fair while on usb2, if patches are configured to instead load from the internal sd does the load time speed up?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Chris,
The limit is PI's memory, thus depends on your model. Footprint of OS+samplerbox is around 250Mb, leaving over 725Mb on a 3B+.
USB versus SD: winner depends on types used, but both are slow 
Samples don't have to be large: the high quality grand piano takes 250Mb, but most of the sounds I use are 20-80Mb. You can load multiple samples in memory within single sample set and switch between them using voices, while playing which can be convenient in gigs.
Just try.... and (dis)like the results.

Thanks for the reply Noek! It’s on my list of things to give a go