I did some additional testing this evening with the System Monitor turned on. There is no memory problem. It never pages at all, and there is always more than 3GB available. It is the CPU that goes through the roof.
I tried a moderately complicated score under several conditions. This score has 16 tracks, although most of them are pretty sparse. The drum and piano tracks have quite a few notes. And this score has an audio track. When I set the score to playback as MIDI and then exported, I got a dialog that gave me the option of WAV or MP3. During the export process, there was a progress bar in a popup dialog. This finished quickly, sounded like ... well, MIDI, and did not include the audio track. I took the same score and set it up as VST playback, and set all instruments to Smartsynth. This time, the dialog offered only WAV, and the progress bar was in the status line at the bottom of the main window -- definitely not the same process as exporting with the playback as MIDI. The WAV included the audio track, and the instruments had that puny MIDI sound. The other two options had the same results (the problem I've been describing). One option was to select the VST as "Garritan Instruments fro Finale". The other is the preferred option, which is to set the VST as Aria, and then load the individual instrument samples within Aria. In both cases, the first 26MB (of a 36MB file) completed in about 30 seconds. The next MB 6MB took about 10 minutes, with the CPU pegged at 100% during that stretch. By that point, the process was running so slow that the file size incremented only about once every 10 seconds, at a pace that would probably take at least 5 hours to complete. I then tried splitting the RHY section off to a second instance of Aria (bank 2). That actually made it MUCH SLOWER, to my surprise. Instead of hitting the wall at 26MB, now I hit the wall at 14MB. Next I muted the rhy parts altogether, which eliminated about 90% of the notes to play back, and it wasn't any better. Something is seriously sick here. So my question to others is whether anybody has had success exporting to WAV with this scope of score when using Aria as the VST to play back Garritan sounds on Windows 7 running in 64-bit mode. On 9/13/2013 11:57 AM, Phil Buglass wrote: > I am also running win7 64bit, but I have 16GB of > RAM in there. I don't think *that* would make > quite as much of a difference as we are seeing, > though. I suppose it is possible that with > windows, plus finale and stuff running, you are > hitting a point where your memory is full and it > starts paging madly to try and process the rest > of the file. If this is something you do a lot, > then it may well be worth investing in a few more > GB of RAM. It would be a fairly cheap > experiment, and just *could* make all the difference to you. > > I guess a test would be to time an attempt, then > kill off as many background and system processes > as you can get away with, and time the same thing > again. Unless the memory limit is enforced by > finale, that should show quite a difference. If > the limit *were* enforced by finale, then I would > probably be getting the same result regardless of my extra RAM. > > Phil. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
