Hard Disk Overload Indicator

[fishmonkey]

so maybe some of the piano samples are corrupted on your disk, or maybe it's the Live project that is corrupted.

try using the exact same sounds (notes & velocities) in a new project. if that is okay then it isn't the samples. if it still glitches then maybe the sample files themselves need checking.

[lapieuvre]

Is there a convolution reverb on that particular sound? Sometimes Kontakt has conv. rev. built in certain patches. I usually remove the reverb

[thomassmith]

no reverb.
pls guys try it out yourself. its FREE!!!

https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/partne ... mpilation/
Though I have PartnerInstrumentsCompilation_v1.4.alp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05HSYoTwIw

You would save a lot of troubles for me.

the thing which causes the problem:
e-instruments compilation studio grand west village normal.aif
Though I have PartnerInstrumentsCompilation_v1.4.alp.


Mark all the samples (altogether 70) and extend it as I did (with 2 only) on this picture till you can play 70 sounds with one hit.

http://postimage.org/image/4bkj08dsn/full/

[Valiumdupeuple]

Hey thomassmith.
I've just tried, and I had no overload, and I could increase the number of played samples a lot with no problem.
Someone made a "corrupted file" suggestion, and I'd look into that in the first place... try to make a fresh new install of the pack.

[thomassmith]

Thx Valiumdupeuple,
I have tried to reinstall then install again. no success:(
But thank you for all for your help.

[fishmonkey]

did you try making a new project?

[thomassmith]

yes:)
I tried all what came to my mind.
My HDD might be simply sucks.

[thomassmith]

Now I wanted to make this instrument myself.
At once I got this message from ableton:

The multisample will take 1207 MB RAM and exceeds the maximum of 1024.
Adding the sample will unload the samples from RAM and play them from disk.

[fishmonkey]

if you wanna mess with big multisampled instruments, then installing more RAM is a very good idea. 2 GB is paltry...

[thomassmith]

thx mate.
32 bit windows 7 can operate with 3 GB RAM only.
64 bit windows 7 can operate with 8 GB RAM but the 64 bit windows also slows the system down because the system requirements are higher.
Am I right?

[fishmonkey]

thx mate.
32 bit windows 7 can operate with 3 GB RAM only.
64 bit windows 7 can operate with 8 GB RAM but the 64 bit windows also slows the system down because the system requirements are higher.
Am I right?

in general changing to 64 bit Windows shouldn't slow your machine down, although it's possible that some things might run a little faster, some a little slower.

the extra RAM will be worth it.

also note that if you are running 32 bit Live, then it is still better to have more than 4 GB of RAM available. this is because whilst Live can't access more than 4 GB of RAM, you don't want it to have to share that 4 GB with other apps, and Windows itself.

[thomassmith]

Thanks fishmonkey. I found this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... b599b31bf5

[ian_halsall]

Certain samples produce problems with hd overload - seriously - I narrowed a problem down to 1 particular sample from Sonarte in one of my projects.

The song still played but the light kept coming on.

It didn't stop me from playing it or otherwise working and I thought that it might be a bug in the indicator code.

Anway - just solo the tracks one by one until you get to the problem track and so on.

Try to either export this particular track to disk or use different samples or switch from sampler to simpler.

Or something - basically detective work.

Good luck

[thomassmith]

thx Ian.
I soloed them.
With 2 sounds it runs OK but with three it sux again.
I think you mates are right.
Need more ram.
Maybe a new computer:)
thx again all of you.

[ian_halsall]

You should be able to run about 20 tracks of audio with that machine.

More detective work - start a brand new project, just keep dragging wavs into the song and play in loop until it grinds to a halt.