KVR Audio

Domenico KVR · Post by **Domenico KVR** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:33 pm

Is it true that you can have too much RAM for a given CPU?
If so, is 32 GB RAM too much for an Intel i5 10th generation equivalent processor (no overclocking)?
Thanks!

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:10 pm

Domenico KVR wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:33 pm Is it true that you can have too much RAM for a given CPU?

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chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:13 pm

Domenico KVR wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:33 pm Is it true that you can have too much RAM for a given CPU?

Nope. At least not as far as I know.

If then, the mainboard limits.

Pictus · Post by **Pictus** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:22 pm

If you use big Kontakt orchestral sample libraries, you want to go to 128GB RAM or more.
If not, 32GB is fine or even 16GB.
It depends on what you do...
The Task Manager can show the usage
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use- ... erformance

You have to check the max ram the CPU/motherboard can handle.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:35 pm

Pictus wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:22 pm If you use big Kontakt orchestral sample libraries, you want to go to 128GB RAM or more.

Stupid question, I really didn't fiddle with sample libraries much so far: Let's say you have an orchestral library which is 16 GB all in all... does a sampler really load all the 16 GB immediately into memory? I know that, usually, such libraries come with violin, cello, horns etc., but, you can choose the instruments, and it always loads one instrument at a time.

Do you maybe mean a full song with lots of instances of some library? 128 GB really seems excessive.

Pictus · Post by **Pictus** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:50 pm

chk071 wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:35 pm Do you maybe mean a full song with lots of instances of some library? 128 GB really seems excessive.

I do not use Kontakt, but look at what the heavy users wants
https://vi-control.net/community/search ... =relevance

Domenico KVR · Post by **Domenico KVR** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:05 pm

Pictus wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:22 pm If you use big Kontakt orchestral sample libraries, you want to go to 128GB RAM or more.
If not, 32GB is fine or even 16GB.
It depends on what you do...
The Task Manager can show the usage
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use- ... erformance

You have to check the max ram the CPU/motherboard can handle.

Thank you for your response.
As chk071 remarked, 128GB looks very heavy. I had no idea Kontakt needed so much CPU.
But a simple solution, when using FL Studio, is exporting the Kontakt channel preset and saving it for later modification, and just rendering the Kontakt track to audio so you can get rid of the actual Kontakt plug-in inside your project. When you want to modify it again, just import the channel and score back into your project.

But for what actually regards my initial question on RAM exceeding the rest of the system's capacity, all your answers were very helpful and appreciated.
I shoudn't be going with more than 32GB RAM and I can see that motherboards pretty much all support this amount these days.

Thank you again. All the best.

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