By Allin
Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:43 pm
It has only 2GB ram, it should have gotten 4GB ram. I run out of ram all the time which is pretty frustrating.
Allin wrote:It has only 2GB ram, it should have gotten 4GB ram. I run out of ram all the time which is pretty frustrating.
Tronlady wrote:What seems to happen is when you utilize the undo feature, the undo's recordings still are stored in RAM until you save/close/reopen the project. I tend to use Undo a bit as its a fantastic feature, but this is what was causing my sessions to max out with less than 20 minutes of audio recorded.
This is brilliant info thanks! This makes me wonder about RETROSPECTIVE RECORD???. Is there any way to turn this off ? Surely this feature is overkill on a device like this with very limited RAM ??
gab3s wrote:In FORCE i can perform like that or similar to that? How can we perform a set with different songs and different BPM's on the FORCE?
I don't mind if i have to open a different project for each song because of the RAM, but in a live performance the force can change between these projects fast?
EnochLight wrote:gab3s wrote:In FORCE i can perform like that or similar to that? How can we perform a set with different songs and different BPM's on the FORCE?
I don't mind if i have to open a different project for each song because of the RAM, but in a live performance the force can change between these projects fast?
Currently, you'd have to load it as another Project, because at the moment, the way Force currently handles it's 8 available stereo audio tracks are all buffered into RAM, and you can't load or record an audio take longer than 4 minutes and 59 seconds onto each track. It takes a few seconds to load a new Project, depending on its complexity.
But that's how Force works currently. In the future, this could change.
gab3s wrote:so if i wanna play a beat that's 8min long it won't play??
EnochLight wrote:gab3s wrote:so if i wanna play a beat that's 8min long it won't play??
Currently, each of the 8 audio tracks are capped at 4 minutes and 59 second recordings each, because if you populated all 8 audio tracks with 4 minutes and 59 second recordings (these are upsampled to 32-bit in Force at 44.1 Khz), those would occupy almost 40 minutes of stereo audio in RAM - which is almost 846 MB of the available RAM (which, newsflash - there is *NOT* 2 GB of RAM available as the OS itself occupies some of that).
Akai is trying to maintain a balance so there is enough RAM to run not only 8 stereo audio tracks (buffered into RAM), but also any Keygroups, Drum Programs, and plugins you may be running at the same time, plus allow the ability to sample as long as 20 minutes. All of this occupies RAM, which is why so many wish that disc-streaming was added.
Hopefully this will change in the near future.
gab3s wrote:now i got it
thank you so much!!
i just bought mine today, waiting for it to arrive