How much memory are you using on your 5k

As the title says. Are you finding yourself needing more?

Reason I'm asking is because I don't think I need more than 64mb for what I'm doing and curious to see how others are working it...

Yes I could definitely use more. I always run outta room with 64MB.

I use my MP in a studio setting. I have yet to exceed 64 MB when doing a song.

Askia Shaheed wrote:I use my MP in a studio setting. I have yet to exceed 64 MB when doing a song.

do you sample alot?

my mpc is the center of my studio, ...and i've run out of memory about 5 or 6 times, but mostly what happens is i am in a position to resample a phrase or something, and am no longer able to do so.

...so it forces me to use the HD recorder, which is okay.

...but what i'm finding i like the most about my 8 HD tracks, is my ability to record multiple vocal takes and compare them to each other.

i've already ordered the RAM upgrade and plan on in the future pretty much fully using the HD recorder for recording vocals only.

the rest is just going to be resample after resample, ...you know, maybe use some regular drum programming, ...but turning melodies and basslines into phrases and such.

but that's just me. 192 all the way ; )

diegoeskryptic wrote:

Askia Shaheed wrote:I use my MP in a studio setting. I have yet to exceed 64 MB when doing a song.

do you sample alot?

I do alot of sampling and chopping. For that, 64 MBs is more than enough. For me, I also use keyboards/sound modules so I am not trying to load a bunch of multi-samples into my MPC. That is what the 4 MIDI outs are for.

I found out that on the two tracks I worked on now I hardly use up a lot of memory, cause I only use drum samples, maybe a chopped up sample from a record and recorded basslines out of my synth. Since I don't have a huge autoload and always start with empty memory 64MB is still more than enough. Don't know how it will be with OS2, when I'm gonna mess around with keygroups.....but for that I still have my 256MB S5000

I think my problem is not purging when I should and chopping longer audio files. For example I'll chop a 2:00 song into 64 regions/pads and that's taking up a lot right there. I love doing this because I can get really creative but the downside it how much room it takes up. So yeah, 64MB should be fine. When sampling peices of songs off Vinyl I never run out of room. I try not to load any audio file larger than 15-20MB because when you want to add more kits and what not you could run into the no mem problem. But yeah, 64MB is a good amount of mem. And like Askia said, using Midi really widens your space.

UBANKRECORDS wrote:But yeah, 64MB is a good amount of mem. And like Askia said, using Midi really widens your space.

yeah and midi also takes money out ya wallet ..

diegoeskryptic wrote:

UBANKRECORDS wrote:But yeah, 64MB is a good amount of mem. And like Askia said, using Midi really widens your space.

yeah and midi also takes money out ya wallet ..

True haha but you can get a good Midi Controller on e-bay for like $60-$70. Well worth the money, I promise you.

UBANKRECORDS wrote:

diegoeskryptic wrote:

UBANKRECORDS wrote:But yeah, 64MB is a good amount of mem. And like Askia said, using Midi really widens your space.

yeah and midi also takes money out ya wallet ..

True haha but you can get a good Midi Controller on e-bay for like $60-$70. Well worth the money, I promise you.

The extra RAM will be valuable when you want to lay a few larger multi-sampled keygroup instruments down which won't be relevant until the release of OS2. Opens up all sorts of new possibilities.

NorthernElite wrote:
The extra RAM will be valuable when you want to lay a few larger multi-sampled keygroup instruments down which won't be relevant until the release of OS2. Opens up all sorts of new possibilities.

No doubt. Soon as a good price pops up on ebay, its mines!!!

UBANKRECORDS wrote:True haha but you can get a good Midi Controller on e-bay for like $60-$70. Well worth the money, I promise you.

True! But I was talking about midi sound modules.

diegoeskryptic wrote:No doubt. Soon as a good price pops up on ebay, its mines!!!

Good to see you back in the game Diego!