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2011/08/21 04:04:29
Muziekschuur at home
I only have a measely 3GB ram. But for what I do it suffices. But I am wondering. What is the biggest session ever and it's use of RAM?

Please share your experience.

Thanks,

Muziekschuur
2011/08/21 04:13:58
Chregg
one of my last projects there i rendered the files 64 bit float, must of been something like 4 1/2 gb of files, and i only have 4gb ram, ass must of been running on paging files lol, still got it mixed !!!
2011/08/21 05:11:38
Freddie H
8 GB... I think even more...
 
Normal 3-6 GB
2011/08/21 09:37:39
aleef
3.92gb cpu 48%(at times 55%)no freezing ... it was a pretty big project for me that is.

50 something tracks
2 instances of SuperiorDrummer 1 for percussion
2 orchestra libraries
4 guitar tracks(processed)
2 bass tracks 1 clean 1 dirty
5 vocals and background

i only do rough mixes of my work and i only know how to use 3 or 4 plugins. i had 1 UAD card..
mostly the pultec eq, Realverb, and LA-2A, with Ozone on the master bus..
2011/08/21 10:27:22
garrigus
Believe it or not, you actually _can_ get  a lot done even with only 3 to 4GB of ram under 32-bit. This is mainly because most large sampling synth stream from disc rather than load everything into memory. If you add UAD effects to that, you can save a lot of CPU power. All this can allow you to work on some pretty large projects.

Scott

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