I want to upgrade from live lite so I am currently testing the demo of live 8.04 to see how well it handles my new vst package (Komplete 5). So far it is very frustrating as live becomes highly unstable and will often crash whenever an instance of Kontakt 3 or battery 3 appear.What is the trick to getting these two VSTs to work without those annoying DFD ram messages?
The most common error message is something like "DFD memory too low" (I click ok and then this message) "a serious program error has occurred, live will now shut down"
This problem is easily duplicated on both of my computers (4 gig ram and dual core) - vista 32 bit and XP SP3.
I've tried lowering the DFD ram settings as recommended by NI, disabling multiprocessor support, enabling capture mouse from host and have installed the latest NI updates.(kontakt 3.5 update has made no difference). I'm unaware of any other tricks.
I loaded the trial of Sony Acid Pro to investigate this further.Kontakt and battery plus all the rest seem to work perfectly within this daw and with no glitches of any kind during high cpu loads and multiple test tracks which suggests the problem is in live 8 and not the VSTs. (bummer)
I'm a fan of live and its user interface and would love to upgrade to the full version of live 8 if i am confident it is stable and Komplete 5 is fully functional. At the moment it is useless.
To all live gurus - Please help with any tips before I give up on Ableton and move to another DAW universe.
How do you stop those annoying DFD ram messages?
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krishnabear
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krishnabear
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Re: How do you stop those annoying DFD ram messages?
After a little more testing of the demo with some random midi data, it seems the crashing problem mainly arises when there is a medium level of complexity ie. multiple vst tracks already present (between 5 -10 tracks).
I really don't understand why this is. When opening a new, blank project within live I can immediately add up to 5-10 instances of kontakt and battery before it crashes. (Great, it kinda works...sort of) However, if there are already a series of vsts present and I then add an Instance of Kontakt, it crashes with the usual "serious program error has occured".
What a quirky program Ableton is proving to be. The fact is all my VSTs work perfectly in Acid Pro demo and I'm ready to buy a full version sequencer now. I'm quite reluctant to change platforms as it's already taken me so long to learn how to use live lite but this problem will prove to be crippling to my future studio work if I go ahead and buy version 8 of live.
Strangely, no one seems to have any clue as to what could be happening
I really don't understand why this is. When opening a new, blank project within live I can immediately add up to 5-10 instances of kontakt and battery before it crashes. (Great, it kinda works...sort of) However, if there are already a series of vsts present and I then add an Instance of Kontakt, it crashes with the usual "serious program error has occured".
What a quirky program Ableton is proving to be. The fact is all my VSTs work perfectly in Acid Pro demo and I'm ready to buy a full version sequencer now. I'm quite reluctant to change platforms as it's already taken me so long to learn how to use live lite but this problem will prove to be crippling to my future studio work if I go ahead and buy version 8 of live.
Strangely, no one seems to have any clue as to what could be happening