I don't recall seeing a thread about this subject before...
My understanding has always been that the instrument patches are loaded into RAM and so having sufficient RAM makes the bigger difference if you want to load a multi. Negligible difference on CPU side since you are likely not playing all the instruments at the same time.
To the real technicians out there, is this correct? And if so, what would be the ideal minimum amount of RAM in order run multi's comfortably?
Perhaps most of us with towers have plenty of RAM these days but when using a laptop with limited RAM for instance, would it not be better to use single instances and avoid multi's? I am just curious...