Populate samplers after plugin launches

[Dan Korneff]

Hey guys!
I have a VSTi with a large amount of samplers. I'm finding that the plugin can take up to 50 seconds to launch (I believe) because it's loading the samples in the background before the GUI shows up.
Is there a quick way to populate the samplers AFTER the plugin launches?

[d.healey]

Yes.

Sampler.loadSampleMap();

But first, rename the folder that contains the samples, so the plugin can't find it, and then reopen your plugin and see how long it takes. If it still takes 50 seconds you know the samples aren't the reason.

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey good call. Removing the sample folder cuts load time down to 20ish seconds.

[d.healey]

@dustbro Are the samples in .ch format?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey yes

[d.healey]

How many gigs of samples?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey about 3GB

[d.healey]

Not a huge sample amount. Have you tried a different host?

[LightandSound]

@dustbro any particular reason for that many samplers? Can't consolidate down to less samplers with more RR groups or layers instead?

[Dan Korneff]

@LightandSound said in Populate samplers after plugin launches:

any particular reason for that many samplers?

The samplers contain multi mic samples, and every time I put more than one instrument with multi mics into a sampler, the instrument act weird or there are conflicts.
I'm in too much of a rush to trouble shoot now... but I will try to consolidate in the future

[d.healey]

You have multiple instruments loaded at once?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey It's a drum instrument, so I consider each drum a different instrument.... but also, different articulations of each instrument get funny if I put them in the same sampler.
I have 5 articulations of a Hi-Hat (3 mic positions for each). When they are put into the same sampler and assigned to different midi notes, things get strange.
Maybe it's a file naming structure? I'll investigate further when I have more time.

[d.healey]

Yeah things can get tricky with that kind of thing. Are you using HISE's built in multi-mic handling?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey said in Populate samplers after plugin launches:

Are you using HISE's built in multi-mic handling?

Yup. Merge multi mic