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maschine users: how many gb of ram do you have?

Discussion in 'Technical Issues (Archive)' started by retrac, Jul 23, 2012.

  1. retrac

    retrac Forum Member

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    i just switched my maschine over from a pc with 2gb of ram to a laptop with 3gb of ram, and the difference is very noticeable, with much less glitcihng, but wtf, it still is glitching at times & maxing the stupid ass processor.

    i just made a track this morning with a few different sections, and i havent even put drums on it yet and it's glitching pretty significantly when i have only a few different loops going at once.

    i am using all 3 of the effects channels on most of the sounds, so i guess the only option is to resample the pads to clear up the effects processing and use less ram but that is seriously lame and a big pain in the ass.

    what is the point of having this super gangster beatmaking unit of fury but it maxes the processor so easily and totally holds me back?

    thumbs down NI.
     
  2. cmacdon123

    cmacdon123 New Member

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    Check youre not red-lining the Volume meter (in the top right).
    I found that as I stacked in more sounds and groups that the internal vol. would be going up. yet speaker vol. didnt. This lead to distortion etc.

    Maybe...
     
  3. djwaxxy

    djwaxxy NI Product Owner

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    on other forums it advises you render parts to audio as often as you can.
    certain plug ins such as kontakt hammers your cpu with some addons such as studio drummer,alicia keys..

    aso wht soundcrd your using plays big part too,i hve two computers one is running xp 2gb ram and the other is win 7 4gb ram..on the xp pc im using a emu 0404card and can get much lower latency than my win 7 pc using my firewire mbox pro..ram is only part of the solution ..try playing about wih your ltency,buffer settings also run massive in eco mode if you can it will be a massive help doing this.
     
  4. retrac

    retrac Forum Member

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    i'll definitely try the volume down, word.

    and yea, rendering sounds to free up effects channels is probably the only sure fire way. it's incredibly backwards though and makes me :angry:
     
  5. jakdj

    jakdj New Member

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    Sounds like you need to get a new computer :)

    Im on a i5 3.3 with 8gb of ram , these cpus are so good for music production especially with a ssd, I had 200 tracks open in ableton and it wasnt even anywhere near 100% load

    I upgraded back in february , its amazing the difference it makes , before I would have too start freezing tracks when my cpu load got high now i dont even need to bother :D
     
  6. ew

    ew Moderator Moderator

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    If you're maxing out the processor, more RAM probably isn't the solution. Get a faster machine.

    As far as RAM goes, though, my laptop has 6 GB, and my studio machine has 16 GB.

    ew
     
  7. gbrown44

    gbrown44 NI Product Owner

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    It's time to upgrade the machine... Do a cheap(er) than normal upgrade, meaning a few parts. I recently (this past week) upgraded motherboard, CPU, and RAM for 384$... And things I couldn't do (that I still say I should've been able to do prior) can do with ease now. I'm still in the test phase, but gladly the machine is taking everything I throw at now and laughing in my face like "what b____, that's all you got"...

    I've always stuck with Gigabyte and Asus boards that had good reviews, but this time I went with a brand I never tried... BioStar (TP67) and it's been the best build i've had to date, and I have a lot of builds under my belt.

    Newegg has some good mobo/cpu combo deals, check them out.
    ---
    And like the other poster said, the i5 (2500K) CPU is a straight up WORKHORSE... Just as good as having an i7
     
  8. retrac

    retrac Forum Member

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    thx for the feedbacks, some good things to consider.
     
  9. aqirforce2high

    aqirforce2high NI Product Owner

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    i used to get this on my old xp machine (pentium d, 4g ram) but since I upgraded its been a non issue, I can still get the CPU to bug out using only samples (like a different full track on each pad in multiple groups) so maybe it's a ram issue, either way with 8-12 g of ram its not goping to be a practical problem.
     
  10. mc1392

    mc1392 New Member

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    Mac OS X 10.6.8
    2.2 Ghz Intel Core duo
    4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

    I'm running between both standalone and Maschine as
    a plugin within Ableton Live, no issues.

    I'm flying in either mode. I especially like the fact that Ableton sets within Maschine tracks load pretty quickly as well. Nowhere close to how long pure Ableton Live sounds load.

    Hardware!
     
  11. KripTed

    KripTed Guest

    Win 7
    Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
    4GB of Ram
    250GB
    500GB External
    Nvidia GTX 560
     
  12. retrac

    retrac Forum Member

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    maschine + 8 GB = keys to a ferrari.


    thanks again gbrown44 for puttin it down like that, that is what i needed to hear. now i can actually murder ****.

    peace
     
  13. moogman79

    moogman79 New Member

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    Win7 64bit
    Core i7 965 Extreme
    24Gb RAM
    4x 128GB SSD as RAID5
    4x 1TB HDD as RAID5
    Adaptec 5805

    Its okay, but the startup and sample load is still anoying slow even on that system.
     
  14. themessenger

    themessenger NI Product Owner

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    Mac OS X 10.7.4
    Core i7 3.4 GHz
    16 GB Ram 1333 MHz DDR3

    I'll second moogman79's frustration. I thought my system would run Maschine with lightning speed, but I also experience a lag on sample and instrument loading.