Topic: Memory Pressure – MacOs Sonoma (Ventura as well) – Audio Drop Outs

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Replied March 12, 2024 at 09:13 #3226951

John
Moderator

Hi,

your OS and other apps will easily use up those last free GB’s so I would suggest either you slim down your kits or get more RAM.
I run an M1 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM and I have never had any memory issues, even with big kits will all Bleed Enabled.

Removing unused Bleed, using Cached mode and/or 16bit will ease the memory pressure.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied March 12, 2024 at 12:38 #3226991

pumpkinking
Participant

I am using a Mac Mini M1 with 16GB of RAM and I’ve managed to use some of the larger presets in SD3 with Logic without issue (one of the biggest in use is a Legacy just over 10GB). I make sure there are no other applications running other than Logic, and also my track count is small. I’m not doing song production, only drum kit recording, so the memory usage of Logic is pretty much all SD3.

I’d say look at what other processes are taking up memory, and if they are applications you started, then stop them. There will be some system processes that you cannot stop, but they’re normally small in terms of active memory usage. Also restarting to Mac can help clean up memory usage if the system has been running for a while.

A Mac Studio with 32GB or a mini M2 pro with 32 GB would I’m sure solve your problem, and while they are great machines at a good price point, they are not free. I’ve been on the fence about an upgrade…

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

Replied March 12, 2024 at 13:56 #3227032

Bear-Faced Cow
Participant

85% is not abnormal as Logic is also reserving memory for the plugins that you are using. I get high memory reserves on my 64GB unit. If you are running SD3 from a stereo track, have tried putting the MIDI on the instrument track And freezing the track? Also, audio dropouts in Logic are not just a sign of memory. Are you running everything from a single drive?

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

Replied March 12, 2024 at 15:46 #3227108

tgfoyl1472_1
Participant

Hi Jord,

I am running SD3 and the SDXs of an external SSD 2TB drive. Logic of the main internal drive (2TB SSD). I am mainly running SD3 on a record enable track and playing SD3 using my ekit a Roland TD-50X.

i thought maybe Logic was the culprit but I am also getting sound drop outs, albeit less so, when running SD3 in standalone mode as well. The buffer setting is currently at 128, I did up it from 64 although I thought my MacBook Pro was powerful enough to run lower. I am using an Apollo X8 Thunderbolt interface for the audio.

I also tried using EZD3 in both Logic and standalone and did not have any issues so it is centric to SD3.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.3.6
Operating system: macOS Sonoma (14)

Replied March 12, 2024 at 16:18 #3227123

John
Moderator

Hi,

another thing to check is the number of CPU cores assigned in the Settings > Performance in SD3. Set it to ‘1’ if it isn’t already.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied March 12, 2024 at 17:05 #3227140

Bear-Faced Cow
Participant

If it’s happening in standalone, it may not be memory in this case. Aside from John’s suggestion, you might want to set your buffer to 256. Also as mentioned above, you may have other processes stealing resources such as spotlight indexing.

jord

Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/
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