Cannot free up memory

Hi,

I have 128 MB of RAM and a 32GB hard drive in my MPC 2500.

I've been using it to play live with my band for the last year and have been adding new songs along the way.

I have our live set stored as a project file and add a new program to it every time we write a new song.

I'm having a major problem now adding a new song. My RAM memory keeps running out and I'm getting the 'insufficient memory' problem.

I have purged all unused samples.

I've tried the trim sample fix which just seems to delete all the samples in my project.

I've scoured this forum and have tried all the various fixes and am still finding myself with no way to clear the ram without unloading my project, and when I load it again the RAM is back to 0.

Please help.

H

Thanks for the reply. And the beautiful metaphor.

Yeah I wasn't aware that the whole project had to fit into the RAM available. Looks like the way to do it is to have a separate project for each song which unfortunately will cause longer gaps between songs.

Thanks again.

If you must put your whole set into a single project file then it's time to do some housekeeping. For example, look at all the samples - how many of them are in stereo? Do they need to be stereo or will mono suffice? For example, bass and individual drum hits can always be in mono (just use the internal mix to pan your drum hits accordingly). Some other sounds can be converted to mono and have stereo effects applied (e.g. delay, chorus, reverb etc).

Are all your samples perfectly edited with no dead space at the end?

Can you offload anything to an external sound module via MIDI?

If you still struggle, then accept that your set needs to be spread across two project files. It shouldn't take more than a minute to load 128MB of data, perhaps less if you have the internal hard drive.

If you have several loops playing at the same time, you could likely mix all these together into one loop instead.

Thanks everyone. Each song takes roughly 15 seconds to load and I'm very talkative so no need to worry.