Giga an the network :-(

[Philippe Heritier]

I work with 2 gigasStudio\'s connected by network, in this case, impossible to work with quicksound database. If I want to add a giga sound file in \"quicksound advanced configuration\", \"ok\" stay in Gray... Please Help Thx

[BlueNote]

When you say they are connected via network, excactly what are you referring to? Are you trying to load samples that is stored on one pc into another over lan? That is generally not a good idea..

[Philippe Heritier]

Thx Bluenote to reply

Yes, gig files are stored on \"computer 2\" and would like to have access to those files with \"computer 1 via QuickSound database\". But it stay in gray.

[Owel]

Originally posted by BlueNote:
When you say they are connected via network, excactly what are you referring to? Are you trying to load samples that is stored on one pc into another over lan? That is generally not a good idea.. <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">Blue, why is it not a good idea. I was thinking of doing the same thing as soon as I have my DAW networked.

[Simon Ravn]

It doesn\'t work and isnt fast enough.

[killerbobjr]

Originally posted by Philippe Heritier:
Yes, gig files are stored on \"computer 2\" and would like to have access to those files with \"computer 1 via QuickSound database\". But it stay in gray. <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">You have to map the network drives to a drive letter in Explorer. Your performance streaming samples over a 100Mbs network definitely is not as good as a local hard disk, but it is useful if you have some low usage samples that you don\'t have room for on your local hard drive.

[Philippe Heritier]

Thx Killer

Don\'t know if i can do that but i will try :-)

[Philippe Heritier]

Ok Killer

I map the network drives to a drive letter \"Z\"
and now quicksound recognize the drive... but

this drive stay empty when i refresh database

so... images/icons/rolleyes.gif

anyway quicksoud recognize only the drive \"D\" of the first comput. images/icons/confused.gif

[Mattias Henningson]

Have you tried to entirely rebuild the database? I don\'t know why, but sometimes the refresh function just doesn\'t work for me either and a complete rebuild is required.

/Mattias

[killerbobjr]

You have to rebuild the entire database. Refresh doesn\'t always work. Alternatively, double click on the channel slot at the top and a File Open dialog will pop up where you can load in any local or network sample.

[christian marin]

this is a weired issue in gigastudio, i\'ve tried that several times with several versions of gigastudio (because streaming samples over gigabit or even firewire(-network) is fast enough for everything) - sometimes the network-drive gets indexed (by gigastudio) sometimes not. but if you ever decide to choose refresh (which generally does not work on our machines) the capability of indexing network drives is gone - forever, you have to do a clean install of gigastudio to get that back
just my expoerience after xx installs
christian

[Bill]

Streaming a few samples over a network works just fine. You can’t use QuickSound though. Double click in a a Giga channel, and use the standard “File Open” dialog to navigate to the desired .gig file, where ever it is located. You can also drag and drop from the Windows Explorer.

[christian marin]

bill, it\'s not an issue with the network, you get 50-60 MB/s over gigabit-ethernet even from computers with the *small* 32bit PCI-bus - like always the harddisks are the slowest devices.
and as i wrote above - you _can_ use quicksound on network-drives, but only on a fresh install, whenever you try to refresh the database, it\'s gone (i did it on two vaios both connected via firewire to a firewire-harddisk which was mounted on one notebook as a physical and on the second as a network device)
christian

[Simon Ravn]

Christian, 100mbit=12,5 megabyte/second. And that is optimal. I don\'t think anyone actually get this speed from a 100mbit LAN - more like 8-10 mb/sec.

[christian marin]

simon, you\'re absolutely right with 100Mbit, but i talked about gigabit. usually the latter should give you 110-120 MB/s, but only if the PCI-card is in a 64-bit slot and the raid is fast enough ... btw: using only 3com in my LAN here, direct MAC-adressing and jumbo-frames i get a maximum of 14 MB/s with large files, but this might be too specific here ...
christian

[Simon Ravn]

Doh missed the gigabit part:)

[Philippe Heritier]

images/icons/wink.gif Thanks all guys for your replies..

The only thing that i can do, is to reinstall Giga and rebuilt a fresh data base from there, anyway its buggy.

by the way, there is the same prob with Kontakt lol images/icons/grin.gif

[christian marin]

philippe, there are a lot of settings in the registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Nemesys, some of them referre to excluded/included drives - i would make sure they are really gone before reinstalling giga ...
christian

[killerbobjr]

You don\'t have to reinstall Giga. Delete all the files in \\Program Files\\Nemesys\\GStudio\\DB and \\Program Files\\Nemesys\\GStudio\\DB\\Back then relaunch Gigastudio. It will rebuilt the database.