Superior Drummer 3 and Pro Tools Disk Cache

[thenewexhibit]

Hello!

 

I’m wondering, I’m using Superior Drummer 3 to trigger drums, and I notice after a while my computer starts huffing and puffing. I look at the Disk Cache in pro tools and it seems full but the session is not that large. Is this because Superior Drummer keeps playing and loading samples into the ram in pro tools and maxing out the disk cache? If so, is there a way to reset all of this so that Superior Drummer isn’t eating the whole session in terms of ram?

 

Thanks!

 

Mike.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS Sierra (10.12)

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[John]

Hi,

the Memory used when looking at the Activity Monitor and Pro Tools Memory Meter depends on several things:
Pro Tools itself weighs about 4GB, regardless of which Cache size you have set in the Playback Engine but the bigger cache you set, the more your Pro Tools Memory meter will go up.
The Avid Video Engine takes more than 4GB of RAM. Make sure it isn’t loaded if you don’t need it.
Just the Avid AppManHelper and Avid Link takes up about half a gig.

SD3 will only occupy more and more of your RAM if you have enabled the Cache mode in SD3, then it only loads samples as they are triggered.
If you don’t have it enabled, the moment you select a preset or load a new drum, it loads into RAM, so it does not load more successively as you work on your song.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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[thenewexhibit]

Got ya! I just compared two different sessions though with the same SD3 setup. I’m just confused because the one that says Disk Cache is maxed out has the same amount of audio essentially as another session, but the other session with SD3 is only using 25% of Disk Cache.

[John]

OK, it’s a bit hard to say without having them to compare, to see what differs. If you can, please ZIP the .ptx files and attach to a post.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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