"Not Enough Memory. Please Save Your Live Set and Quit" "OK"

[Alextronica]

So this is the first time I've gotten this message.

I hope the last time too, but is there anything I can do to fix/prevent this?

I'm running Live 7 Suite on a Mac i3 3.06 ghz with 4 gigs of Rams

Anyway thanks for any knowledge you can drop me.

[Simbosan]

Welcome to the world of Freeze/Flatten. Freeze reduces CPU load, but doesn't decrease RAM usage as the VST/Instruments remain in memory. Flatten will reduce both RAM and CPU, (but increase disk use?). If I get a set that's reeeeally big, once a track is settled down, I drag it to a kind of holding set in case I need to re-render and then freeze/flatten the version in the current set. DONT FORGET: Flatten is destructive edit!

hth

S

[Alextronica]

I haven't tried Freeze or Flatten yet.

Cheers Mate!

[Saxer]

"Not Enough Memory. Please Save Your Live Set and Quit" "OK"

that´s what my brain says from time to time...

[ze2be]

I also have 3gb ram. 99% of my crashes this year are because of ram limitations. Im pretty shure of it. "Live got a serious error and needs to shut down" happens 1 to 5 times a day, depending on how long I work. Im able to rescue the last edit. But because of a known bug, I need to restart the computer to be able to restart Live, each and every time this happens. Live (I have Suite) is getting fatter, so does 3rd party plugs and sample libraries.

What we need is 64bit operation so that we can use more ram!

[Simbosan]

Yeah Live doesn't handle out of memory very well, it gets unstable before it completely runs out as well, strange things happen. I now take that as a sign to start slimming down and trimming the phat.

Another useful thing I find with big sets is to keep task manager open, if Live gets up to around 1.5gb you know you are in dangerous country and can start taking care.

S