Out of Memory?? WTF???

[DavidK]

If I try to use effects like revalver in SONAR, I get an "out of memory" message. WTF?? I have a celery 566, 256 RAM, runs perfectly.

I am clueless. Is there a "clipboard" or something else in SONAR that is messing me up? I havent used many effects, I just play ye olde fiddle. Now I am getting into it, but this " Out of memory" thing is puzzling. A big bear hug for anyone who helps.

[Qwerty]

There is a Sonar 2.0 DXi patch which is supposed to address some stability issues. Throw it on and test from there.

What OS are you running? What are your swap file settings? What is your video card and what level of acceleration are you using?

Fill in the gaps and we will see where we can go.

[acidrock]

Have these efects worked before?
Have you got them patched to an invalid output?

[eyeslikefire]

I have a celery 566

Thats your problem Dave!
You need a minimum of 'turnip 566" to run Sonar correctly.

[ChuckU]

I know I'm shamelessly trying to boost my hug count, but I agree with "Eyes", Dave. Your Celery just can't hack it. Revalver especially is a huge resource hog. I use it sparingly.

[vicevursa]

DavidK, I use a AMD K62-500 Mhz with 256 mb RAM. When I use revalver I have to set every audio track to archive except the for the one track that I am trying to apply the effect on. My system barely runs. It is a long process. Every now and then I can non-destructively apply revalver to my track, but I can't make too many changes to quickly or I get dropouts. Most of the time, though, I have to destructively edit, then mixdown the track to hear my edits. I just thought my comp wasn't beefy enough (which it isn't) to handle many plugs/dxi's to begin with. When I first used revavler I only had 128mb RAM, I quickly bought another 128mb only to get the same results as far as revalver is concerned, but everything else is smoking! I'm starting to think something is up...



Vice

[DavidK]

Thanks everybody. I figured that my computer isnt quite up for the job. Does anyone know of any other Guitar amp-sims that are good (and not CPU hogs)? I have Cakewalk FX2, but the sound is really bad.

[Qwerty]

Try using CFX2 Amp Sim in combination with CFX3 Soundstage - putting the virtual amp in a virtual room sounds virtually the same as the real thing......... (although I do think ReValver does sound better..........)

[DavidK]

Thanx Qwerty, I also have CFX3, I will give it a try.

Keep in mind I am doing this with Violin. I have an electric violin as well, maybe I will lay down some tracks with my electric as well. I am looking for an electric Guitar sound from my fiddle. My Buddy Mark Wood gets the sound I want ( He even made my Electric), so I will do some experimenting. Cheers, Dave

[James Argo]

I've recorded violin also in SONAR. Only one track beside one piano (Soundfont).
I use this set :

Track Insert--> Cake Amp Sim
Drive 4.32
Bass 6.39
Mid 4.32
Treb 3.03
Presence 7.61
Volume 5.11
Amp Model : Solid State Clean (uncheck bright)
4X12
Off-Axis
Tremolo rate : 50.00
leave others to zero

Master Insert --> Cakewalk Delay
Dry 100.00 Mix 50.00
LDelay 200.00 RDelay 200.00
Feedback
L 50.00
C 0.00
R 50.00
Sinus
Leave others uncheck.

I record my violin using both pickup (cheap 'Piezzo'), and mic SM57, from about 10" distance. Mackie 1202, and SB Live . I use realtime for monitoring, it's too thin & sharp... but after I export it to .wav, somehow it's wider and sounds alot fater... I dunno if you will like this sound, but it's okay to try...

[acidrock]

I would recomnmend getting a hardware device such as the pod,v-amp or j-station.IMHO these are better sounding than the softwarte thats out there plus it would save you cpu that your computer can't spare at this moment.
Afraid of commiting to a tone?Just split your signal and record one"clean track".You can always apply effects offline to this track later.

[gascap]

Hi David,

yea, ask Mark what he's doing - especially since that's the sound you desire. I have an older zeta (I know, I know...I was young) BUT it's not their body, rather the bridge kit ..anyway, it actually sounds really good as straight elec. I run it first through a fishman preamp, then straight into my ark 24/96. For a nice distortion sound, I'm just using some sound forge plug-ins, but I intend on getting a BETTER set of PI's like WAVES or something...

I also had fun with a cheap-o disto pedal. Unfortunately budget dictates much.

Let us know what you end up doing. I'm a sucker for fiddles pretending to be guits.