How Do I allocate more memory in cubase?

[d.a.m...@gmail.com]

i'm consistently running out of memory or "physical memory" when i
load ivory and big kontakt programs into cubase ....i have a quad core
2 big hard drives and 4 gigs of ram...how do i allocate more memory to
cubase?

[d.a.m...@gmail.com]

by the way i'm using cubase sx 3 and win xp sp 2

[nickm]

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Windows XP SP2 (32 bit version) will only 'see' between 3 and about 3.25GB
of your 4GB of RAM. It varies from system to system. The system as a whole
will utilise the whole 4GB though - but no more unless you move to a 64bit
OS. You can try adding the /3GB switch to Windows' BOOT.INI file to the
end of the line starting with 'multi' under the [Operating Systems] section.
This will allow your applications to use up to 3GB of RAM and the Windows
kernel to use less than without the switch. By default memory allocation is
split 50-50 between applications and kernel processes. It may or may not
improve matters for you.

Also, tune your PC for use as a DAW by stopping unnecessary applications,
services and processes from running with Windows - there's lots of info on
this on the Net. Ensure that Ivory and Kontakt options are optimised (I
don't use either, so can't advise exactly on how to go about this, but
experimenting with DFD (Direct From Disk) streaming settings could help
based on what I've read on a couple of forums about the problem you have).
Ensure that you are using the latest versions of Kontakt and Ivory. Reduce
the number of VSTi's that Cubase loads by default by de-selecting the ones
you never or rarely use.

[Jos Geluk]

nickm schreef:

All good advice, but simply using DFD (see above) may make your memory
problems go away altogether.

Jos.

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Ardis Park Music
www.ardispark.nl

[Phil W]

nickm wrote:

> Also, tune your PC for use as a DAW by stopping unnecessary
> applications, services and processes from running with Windows -
> there's lots of info on this on the Net.

Sysinternals is a good resource website from Microsoft for appropriate
programs. All of them are, most are relatively small, but yet quite
powerful.

Their "Process Explorer" is a kind of improved task manager. It gives a bit
more insight, which application or service belongs to a certain filename.
That can make it easier to identify unnecessary services and background
programs and "kill" them during DAW use.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Check out the other programs there, too. A few of them might be helpful, if
you know what you´re doing.

Phil

[philip...@gmail.com]

I have this trouble with 64 bit windows 7 and 6gb ram! Cubase keeps maxing out at 2gb!

[Hueyduck]

philip...@gmail.com a �crit :

> I have this trouble with 64 bit windows 7 and 6gb ram! Cubase keeps maxing out at 2gb!
>

Hi,

Are you using a 32b version of cubase? In this case this is normal.

If this is actually the case and you don't want to migrat e right now to
a 64bit version of cubase, I suggest you consider using jbridge .
It allocates special memory space for each plugin you decide and thus
frees memory for cubase to be used.

Huey