Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
Found out that my computer has:
Memory: 1.0 GiB
HardDrive: 241.2 Gb
When SoundFonts have to be loaded into memory than problems are to expected well before 1 GiB.
Is there a way to solve this other than adding RAM memory?
Memory: 1.0 GiB
HardDrive: 241.2 Gb
When SoundFonts have to be loaded into memory than problems are to expected well before 1 GiB.
Is there a way to solve this other than adding RAM memory?
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
I'm surprised a system with 1GB of ram can do much or anything. Could you post the output of
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
The output of what?merlyn wrote:I'm surprised a system with 1GB of ram can do much or anything. Could you post the output of
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1016328 933408 82920 164356 18888 362668
-/+ buffers/cache: 551852 464476
Swap: 1037308 246356 790952
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
You got it! Yes, you've got 1 GiB ram. You can see that the swap partition is being used:
That isn't advised for audio. So more ram is recommended. It will definitely help.
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Swap: 1037308 246356 790952
That isn't advised for audio. So more ram is recommended. It will definitely help.
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
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*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
physical id: 0
version: 6.00 PG
date: 08/03/2008
size: 128KiB
capacity: 448KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 8
slot: Internal Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 9
slot: External Cache
size: 512KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: synchronous external write-back
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 23
slot: Systeem- of moederbord
size: 1GiB
capacity: 2GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchroon
physical id: 0
slot: A0
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:1
description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2013-01-22 19:06+0000Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>Language-Team: Dutch <nl@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-07-20 12:05+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 18147) [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: A1
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
From this
we can tell you have DDR2 and have one slot free. This must be quite an old machine. Now we have to find out the maximum ram your motherboard can take by installing dmidecode. The exact command depends on the distro. What distro are you using?
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*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchroon
physical id: 0
slot: A0
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:1
description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2013-01-22 19:06+0000Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>Language-Team: Dutch <nl@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-07-20 12:05+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 18147) [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: A1
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 32-bit
Maybe then it's simpler to just buy a more recent second hand computer? I work in a thrift shop so for the same amount of money to buy new components for my old computer I could probable just buy another more recent second hand computer....
Maybe then it's simpler to just buy a more recent second hand computer? I work in a thrift shop so for the same amount of money to buy new components for my old computer I could probable just buy another more recent second hand computer....
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
I've seen DDR2 in second hand shops for pennies. Your machine will definitely take another 1GB stick. If you want to find out the maximum ram your machine can take do this:
That will print out 'Maximum Capacity' along with some other details. EDIT: This just reports what the BIOS tells it. It doesn't scan the hardware.
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dmidecode
sudo dmidecode -t 16
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Re: Max size soundfonts in LMMS?
That looks like sudo apt-get update. I don't know what the last line says. Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Klaar . Did you type them in one at a time?