More RAM overkill?

[musikman1]

HI guys, quick question.....right now my PC is in the shop being worked on by my pc tech. I have 32GB RAM now, and was wondering if it would be overkill to bump that up to 64GB?

I run CW Sonar newest version, and generally run multiple instances of plugins, like Omnisphere, Keyscape, and audio FX plugs.  I don't do much video, but 

once in awhile I'll take on a video project, nothing elaborate though.   Things have been running good with 32GB, I'm just thinking maybe with technology advancing

I could get ahead of the curve if I bump up to 64GB.  I'm not really a computer tech person, so any suggestions appreciated.  Thank you!

 

MM

[hsmx]

Unless you're using heavy sampling libraries & for your purposes 32GB should be fine.  For video the card would be more important. (plus a more expense consideration)

[Bass Guitar]

58 minutes ago, hsmx said:

Unless you're using heavy sampling libraries & for your purposes 32GB should be fine.  For video the card would be more important. (plus a more expense consideration)

+1.   You are probably fine with 32. But depending on how old the RAM you have is you might see an improvements in performance if you can upgrade to newer faster RAM. 
 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

I use a couple of massive sample libraries and I've never had any issue with 32Gig of RAM.

 

[Bass Guitar]

On my latest build I went with 64 because it was inexpensive. I can get by on 16. 

[JonD]

7 hours ago, musikman1 said:

.... generally run multiple instances of plugins, like Omnisphere, Keyscape, and audio FX plugs.  

 

I could get ahead of the curve if I bump up to 64GB.  I'm not really a computer tech person, so any suggestions appreciated.  Thank you!

 

MM

Some Omnisphere patches can use up a LOT of MEMORY.  If you are running multiple instances than YES, I would say that bumping the ram to 64GB would be a very good idea.

[AB99]

Why not 64gb and play it safe. I use quite a few sample libraries and I am using 96gb with two sticks. Generally avoid 4 sticks. 

[Greg Wynn]

64 running at 6800 on an i9 14900.

 

 

smokin’ !

[musikman1]

11 hours ago, Bass Guitar said:

+1.   You are probably fine with 32. But depending on how old the RAM you have is you might see an improvements in performance if you can upgrade to newer faster RAM. 
 

All good feedback, thanks, much appreciated!  I think I'm going to bump it up to 64GB.  I think what I have in there now is DDR4, not sure if my motherboard will

take the newer RAM, but good suggestion worth considering.   As JonD mentioned, some of Omnisphere's sample patches are huge, so if more RAM will help them 

load quicker that would be beneficial. Even more so, Keyscape has all keyboards, including many patches of their Grand Pianos that are really fat, and in general, Omnisphere uses lots of FX processing too.  

I am curious, aside from VSTs and Audio FX,  which other functions of CW Sonar require more RAM, and also which require more processor function. I would imagine the answer to that would lie somewhere here in the forums!  Thanks again!

 

MM