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  • Anyone running VIs and Kontakt2 together on a G5?

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    OK,

    I'm at my wits end here.........30+ hours of trouble-shooting,

    I am running 1.6 Gig of VIs (16 instances)

    and

    1.5 Gigs of Kontakt2 (1 multi-instance)

    The dual 2 Ghz at home has 4 gig RAM
    The dual 2 Ghz at work has 7 gig RAM


    Droputs, clicks, pops with "lean" arrangements.......not even fast passages....

    If I launch Only K2 instances all is well....If I launch only VIs all is well...


    But together do not work.....

    I get strange error messages on load up stating that KOntakt2 is running low on memory and I might get artifacts...

    I am NOT running low!!!


    I have Activity monitor open and can see thee 2.8 gig of unused RAM!


    There is some sort of memory conflict between the way VIs and K2 handle memory.....


    Anyone?

    SvK
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    MAYA,

    please, please do some tests on a G5 and launch circa 1.5 gig worth of VIs and 1.5 gig worth of K2s


    thanx,

    SvK
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    @svonkampen said:

    MAYA,

    please, please do some tests on a G5 and launch circa 1.5 gig worth of VIs and 1.5 gig worth of K2s


    thanx,

    SvK


    yep, will do some testing
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    ..no problem here on G5 2.3 Dual 6 Gb Ram Logic.
    Running:
    5 Kontakt Vers.2.1 / 8 inst each one. (Running 24 bit Lybz)
    6 EXS 24 Running Opus 1 Performance Legato (Samplemerged by EXS Manager)
    3 V.I. including Legato Speed, Repetitions Speed, Sus.Shorts. Pizz, Tremolo.
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    Just a silly thought, since Anton has no problems with his slightly faster machine: what's your sound card's buffer setting? I can't run the MOTU one at 128 with the V.I. - it has to be 256.

    As far as I can see, the Kontakt "low memory" warning can be ignored. I've always just kept going and never had a problem.
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    My buffer is 512

    SvK
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    Mays,

    thanx [;)]

    SvK
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    Anton,

    Of course you don'y have aproblem your running 3 VIs

    I am running 16

    SvK
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    ...but i am running 40 instr. from K2...in full poliphony.
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    Hi SVONKAMPEN,

    I did all tests on this machine: Power PC G5 2.5 Dual/6GB RAM/OS 10.4.6/Logic Pro 7.2.1

    1)
    I loaded:
    K2 (2.0): 1GB (with Chamber strings perf-leg programs)
    VI (1.06b): 1.67 GB (with L2 Preset Solo Violine and L2 Preset Flute 2) 2 instances

    I didnĀ“t encounter any problems. This setup worked fine.

    After I added some more programs to Kontakt I got a message saying: "Memory is getting low" although there was still enough RAM free according to the readout in the activity monitor.


    2)

    For this test I updated Kontakt 2.0 to the latest version.

    1 Kontakt 2.11: (loaded Epic Horns and some Chamber Strings, 28 instruments in total)
    1,14 GB = memory readout from Kontakt GUI and the memory readout used for Logic (RSIZE) in the activity monitor showed 1,6 GB

    VI (1.06b): (loaded Solo Violin Preset L2, Solo Cello Preset L1 and 14 more Vienna Instruments = 16 in total. It was not necessary to load content to all of them because you didnĀ“t play all of them simultaneously. To get the mentioned amount of memory I decided to load two huge presets of instruments you suggested).

    1,9 GB = memory readout for VSL server in activity monitor

    I played a violin line, a cello pad and horn chords, but unfortunately nothing weird happened. Everything played back smoothly.

    So, obviously I will have to do some more tests when I am back from my holidays.


    Best,

    M a y a
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    MAYA,

    Have a great vacation and thanx for testing this so thoroughly...........

    Go have fun [;)]

    SvK