Topic: not enough memory to load sound font

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  • January 11, 2011 at 03:01 #2500
    pbattersby
    Participant

    I’m getting an error that says

    There’s no enough memory to load the selected sound font

    (I copied the spelling mistake to be accurate)

    When I originally created my arrangement, there was no problem loading the sound font. I worked on some music for a few hours, saved my work a few times, everything seemed fine.

    The next day I went to open up my project and I get that error.

    I’m using Podium 2.37 (free version). I have close to 2.5G of available RAM according to Task Manager.

    I’m, using sfz+ and I’m trying to load FluidR3 GM.sf2 (I also tried a different sound font that is used by my sound card – same problem)

    I am using sfz+ in single file mode (though it makes no difference if I deselected single file mode)

    The error I mentioned shows up in popup box 32 times.

    Any thoughts?

    January 11, 2011 at 10:44 #20235
    druid
    Participant

    This is going to sound silly, but have you tried sfz (not the plus version)? I seem to recall having some kind of issue with the plus version that was released for free, most unfortunately, and have reverted to using the original free version of sfz.

    I could be way off of course, but anyway, just in case!

    January 11, 2011 at 16:18 #20238
    pbattersby
    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but still have the same problem. I can’t figure this out. I have another project that is quite happily using sfz+ and the Fluid sound font.

    Yet, when I start a new project, and do nothing more than try to load a sound font in to Sfz+ or Sfz, I get the memory error.

    January 11, 2011 at 21:53 #20240
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    There’s no enough memory to load the selected sound font

    That message is not generated by Podium. It must be sfz+ that displays it. Perhaps you could try to clear and then reselect the soundfont, after sfz+ has displayed the error message.

    January 11, 2011 at 22:29 #20241
    pbattersby
    Participant

    I’ve tried all sorts of things including deleting sfz+ entirely and unzipping it again.

    Further research suggested that oddly enough, adding more RAM could be related to the problem. Ironically, a few other people had this problem arise after upgrading from 2G to 3G RAM. I also recently went from 2G to 3G RAM. So one suggestion was to remove the extra RAM.

    Before I tried removing any RAM, I also read a suggestion to load the Sound Font in PR32 mode instead of SF32 or SF16 mode. I’m not sure what these modes are BUT, it seems to have made a difference. The memory error went away and I can still use my 3G of RAM.

    January 12, 2011 at 02:01 #20242
    druid
    Participant

    Ah yes, that rings true from some of the things I read too.

    SF32 loads the entire soundfont into memory, at 32-bit resolution. Likewise, SF16 does the same but at 16-bit. PR32 loads only the selected program (so, Piano, for instance) into memory, but not the entire soundfont, at 32-bit resolution. And PR16 you can guess!

    I’m not sure why that 3gb upgrade would cause that. Are you using 32-bit Windows?

    I might also go and try sfz+ again, just in case I no longer get the issue, or can resolve it. I have 4gb of memory currently.

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