I’ve recently started audio recording at 96khz sampling, and often very long recordings too. It seems that when a recording reaches a certain data size and I try to click ‘done’ to start working with the sample Renoise gives me an ‘out of memory’ message and the take is lost.
Is this limit related to the amount of RAM I have (being 2gb), or is it something else?
Mark, what software are you recording with? I’ve never had a problem like yours before.
If the recording is not done on disk, memory limitations are 2GB per application in XP, if you use the boot-parameter trick, at most 3GB.
But 2GB is a lot of ram to spend, even for a 96Khz sample… about what application are you speaking?
Do you have enough disk-space?
The recording is done on disk, but as soon as you hit done, the sample is loaded into memory as its done with every sample. This seems to be the problem.
We could/should maybe at least offer a way to keep/recover the recorded audio file then? Something like “Failed to load sample, but here it is BLA if you need it”.
Yeah we’re talking epic-long recordings here at ultra high serious quality. I’ve loads of disk-space (1.5 TB), but only 2gb of ram.
Just to have the data saved would be great, not necessarily for instant use. If there’s no easy fix for this in Renoise I might use a VST recorder instead or another app. Just thought you guys needed to know that the limit is being reached with Renoise.
Something like that should be nice. But for now, I will buy 4 gigs of ram extra.
anything over 4GB on your PC will be useless, as 32bit environments will not be able to address more than 3GB for a single application, so don’t go over 4GB
thanks, I knew that. but If I want to upgrade, I Have to ditch the 1 GB modules I have now. interested? 
Greetings, Say i just had this very same problem. I’m on a mac with 1 terabyte hd (dedicated soley to renoise) and have 16 gigs of RAM.
i receieved an out of memory error message and my take was lost. Am I understanding correctly that the size sample that one can record is dependent on the amount of RAM one has installed on their computer?
Thanks for your time and efforts!
Renoise can “only” use 2 (or 3 as mentioned earlier) since it’s a 32 bit application, so everything above that (2 or 3 gb) is not usable by Renoise.
Can’t Renoise do swapping? All sample data is locked into memory?
The address space is the limit, so even using mapped files would not help…
Renoise will use 4 GB on x64 systems - if available, while its only 3GB/2GB on x86 systems. Its 3GB if you set up windows to boot with the /3GB flag.
Not sure how this is handled in Linux though.
That is actually quite excellent news (4 gb usable), should help a bit 