Sorry if this has been asked before, I did try searching first but couldn't find anything.
I know about freezing tracks and reducing sample rates and such. But will adding RAM to my system bring down the amount of CPU usage to my projects?
Thanks..
Will adding RAM to my system reduce CPU load in Cubase sx3?
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- KVRAF
- 10815 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from UK
it might help if you post your current amount of ram?
if you allready have 1 gig then most proberly no
but i'm no expert
Subz
if you allready have 1 gig then most proberly no
but i'm no expert
Subz
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 22 Apr, 2006
Depends what do you basicly use: more fx or more vst. If you use lots of big-library vst you need more RAM and it will reduce cpu usage, but if fx, adding RAM would not reduce usage
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- KVRian
- 520 posts since 11 Sep, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
No, CPU load will not be reduced with more RAM.
What WILL be reduced by installing more RAM is the probabilty that data has to be swapped to harddrive. As long as your system is not overloading due to swapping more RAM will change exactly nothing.
What WILL be reduced by installing more RAM is the probabilty that data has to be swapped to harddrive. As long as your system is not overloading due to swapping more RAM will change exactly nothing.
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- KVRAF
- 6937 posts since 4 Jun, 2004 from Utrecht, Holland
That depends on the current usage of you system, and especially usage of the pagefile.
The main thing that happens when adding RAM is reduction in usage of the page file. This is a large file on disk that is needed for Virtual Memory.
The Virtual Memory consists of a lot of pages, just like a book is a collection of pages. Your physical RAM can only hold a (relative) small number of pages. If a page is requested that isn't currently in RAM, the least used page is swapped to disk and the requested page is loaded from disk instead.
It's this loading and unloading that require CPU and harddisk activity, which slows down your system.
In the windows task manager's "Process" tab you can add columns to view which are specific to page file usage. My windows version is not in English (and maybe yours isn't also) so I can't tell you which ones they are. But it should be obvious...
Most likely it will be VST's that require large amounts of memory that will benefit from adding RAM. These are for instance instruments that use big sample collections.
I hope this helps...
The main thing that happens when adding RAM is reduction in usage of the page file. This is a large file on disk that is needed for Virtual Memory.
The Virtual Memory consists of a lot of pages, just like a book is a collection of pages. Your physical RAM can only hold a (relative) small number of pages. If a page is requested that isn't currently in RAM, the least used page is swapped to disk and the requested page is loaded from disk instead.
It's this loading and unloading that require CPU and harddisk activity, which slows down your system.
In the windows task manager's "Process" tab you can add columns to view which are specific to page file usage. My windows version is not in English (and maybe yours isn't also) so I can't tell you which ones they are. But it should be obvious...
Most likely it will be VST's that require large amounts of memory that will benefit from adding RAM. These are for instance instruments that use big sample collections.
I hope this helps...
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- KVRian
- 503 posts since 28 Mar, 2005 from Annapolis, MD
I'm new to Cubase SX3--used Ableton Live 5. Isn't there an option allowing you to load your samples into RAM? I would think that would decrease CPU load, but I wouldn't think it would be substantial. There were certain large sample instruments that I couldn't even load until I got 2Gigs of RAM.
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- KVRian
- 601 posts since 5 Mar, 2005 from A bordello in Moscow
Bingo! Gigastudio and RMX both ran like tortoises till I added more Ram. You didn't say what you were running on your system.feyshay wrote:There were certain large sample instruments that I couldn't even load until I got 2Gigs of RAM.