And? Of course the loading time on big projects is long.What exactly is your problem i don't get it?DJ Warmonger wrote:To allocate over 16 GB of libraries you first need to read that much data from your disk... which will take a lot of time on its own. If your projects take forever to load, now you know why16 GB is more than enough. Only exception is big orchestral libraries.
Is "More RAM" = Better DAW performance?
- KVRAF
- 5564 posts since 13 Jan, 2005 from the bottom of my heart
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- KVRAF
- 4718 posts since 26 Nov, 2015 from Way Downunder
More RAM is better for big sample libraries, ie: Kontakt instruments - but you can still hit a bottleneck with the CPU. How many cores in that i7? Enable multi-threading and you should be good for years to come.
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- KVRAF
- 2964 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
CHeck you resources usage in task manager. I used 16 gigs for the past 4 years with no issue using Kontakt Instruments and total memory use rarely exceeded 14 gigs . I recently purchased the East West catalog (monthly plan) and I had to upgrade as I was hitting the wall with the memory. I added another 16 gig and have all the headroom I need but for composers with large midi orchestal setups 64 to 128 gigs is not unheard of. . .
- KVRian
- 1156 posts since 10 Apr, 2006
it may or may not depend on your OS, too. if memory serves, OSX grabs all of the RAM, and distributes it as it sees fit. Windows just seems to use it as required.
I've made it policy to max out RAM in whatever machine i have, just out of principle...i don't want to need to upgrade for some reason, and have to wait for shipping or whatnot to do so....
I've made it policy to max out RAM in whatever machine i have, just out of principle...i don't want to need to upgrade for some reason, and have to wait for shipping or whatnot to do so....
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- KVRian
- 652 posts since 2 Mar, 2015 from UK
Samples use up a lot of RAM if you don't have enough RAM the OS is forced to use some of your hard drive as virtual ram which is way slower and can cause problems. If you have enough RAM for your typical projects and add even more RAM in you won't notice a difference. On Windows look at task manager you can see how much your DAW is currently using. If its not near your max amount of RAM save your money.
- KVRAF
- 2191 posts since 10 Jul, 2006 from Tampa
The "RAM drive" won't help you here. A "RAM drive" reserves a chunk of RAM to use instead of the swapfile on your hard drive, since that's much slower than accessing RAM.cowby wrote:I know though 16G is not that much ... But I came across a term called "RAM drive". Any benefit for DAW/Vsti?
However, if you're barely using the swapfile (and with 16 GB of RAM, you're probably barely using it), then reserving RAM is counter-productive. You'd end up using more of your swapfile because you cut down on the amount of available RAM.
I haven't seen anyone worry about a "RAM drive" in DAW use. And honestly, I haven't seen anyone worry about one in general in years.
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