Instruments • Re: Roland Cloud

@IvyBirds Zenology might actually be loading the samples to RAM, the Resource Monitor on my PC shows a bump of around 500 MB when loading Zenology the first time, with new instances adding only 70 MB. But I think you are spot on about Zenology validating every preset bank, and installing more banks increases the load time (at least on my system).

@vulpes777 Zenology stores factory banks as .exz files in:

Code:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Roland\ZENOLOGY\Patch

While user banks(.bin), favorites (.fzi) and sound packs at:

Code:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Roland Cloud\ZENOLOGY

I'm not sure where model expansions are located though, I don't have any installed atm but they probably are in the above folder as well.

The AppData location is where I found what looks like an .fzi AND a separate folder for every expansion I had installed. The folders for the EXZ expansions also apparently have some sample content within them, as they add up to 1.5GB (the remaining folders are pretty much a few KB each).

So, after I let Zenology regenerate just the 'Lite' assets, all that is gone, except the fzi for the 'Lite' factory banks. I'll probably go ahead and try and do a cleanup in the VST3 folder, although things seem more...delicate there, just renaming the patch folder doesn't work and crashes Zenology.

On second thought I guess I can leave it be. For now, I'm happy I was able to remove the biggest culprit for the long load times.

Cheers,

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Marco

Statistics: Posted by vulpes777 — Sat Sep 21, 2024 7:20 am

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