Optimizing RAM

[WillK]

I'm using VSL SE with sibelius 5 and everything works fine with a few instruments, but as soon as I load more than 6, I have no more RAM left. Vienna Ensemble says (in the performance page) that I have about 170MB memory used and 10MB memory left, out of the 180MB that seem to be "assigned" to the program. My computer has over 1Go of RAM, so can I "assign" more RAM to my VE program instead of the default 180 that is given to me? If so, how? Thanks! Willk

[dayadon]

What?

I think I might be able to help a bit, and others surely could, if you could clarify some things for us.

For example:

Do you mean by 1Go Ram, 1 gigabyte?

and the references to 170MB memory, do you actually mean hard drive space?  I'm guessing you do.

Are you using a PC?  It sounds like you are.

Off the top here, it sounds like you are using a very minimal system.  Please offer some more info, and I'm sure things will get answered for you!

[WillK]

I'm using a mac, and yes I mean 1Go Ram. In the performance page in the Vienna Instruments standalone, there's a section where you can see the number of samples used and the number of memory used and memory free (right beside the learn, optimise and reset buttons). Oddly, when I have to about 5 or 6 instruments loaded, it says that I very little memory free. I'm not sure what all of this means, but it just seems like VSL uses only a fraction of the RAM my computer has... I don't know if any of all this is clear(!)

[andi]

Hello Will!

VE uses the available RAM and in your case it seems that there is not more. Maybe you can close other applications that stay in your RAM.

Anyway, I strongly recommend getting more RAM. You won't get far with 1 GB.

Best regards,
Andi

[WillK]

yeah I guess you're right...life costs so much!!