Memory Error on PT 5.1

[blueslunk]

I have PT 5.1 on an 8500 clone. Yes, I know gross! Anyway I have 512K RAM and a 9.1 Seagate Cheetah harddrive. When I record, I get a "low memory, allocate more memory" error. I've gone to the About protool menu under the apple menu and I get an animated screen that displays the creators and developers of PT. I've gone to the Get info dialog box and get #1-#5 and I don't see a spot for memory? I've done the same with the DAE and get all the same except the Buffer size. I increased it and still getting the same error? Thanks, Brandon [email protected]

[Slim Shady]

Make sure PTLE isn't running, then do a "get Info" on the PTLE application. Use the drop-down menu to select 'memory' You can then increase the amount of memory allocated to PTLE. It is recommended that you do not change the minimum size, just the preferred size.

[Park Seward]

From the Digi web site:

•Please read all of the Digidesign manuals and installation documents that come with your Digi 001 digital audio system. In addition we highly recommend reading all of the manuals that make up your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) system to familiarize yourself with the software and hardware and any books or classes on Digital Audio, Apple computers, and Audio recording.

•Your CPU should have a minimum of 128 MB of RAM (196 MB recommended) If you plan to use other audio or MIDI applications with Pro Tools additional RAM is highly recommended. Not having the minimum or recommended system memory will cause your system to not launch, crashing during the launch of Pro Tools, system crashes, or DAE memory error prompts.

•Make sure your memory setting are as follows. Pro Tools preferred memory should be set to
@20,000-35,000k. DAE preferred memory should be set to @30,000-50,000. Pro Tools and DAE
minimum memory setting should be left at its default. You can confirm this by entering a zero into the minimum field and pressing enter on the keyboard, this will default the minimum memory setting. DAE's playback buffer size (Finder/DAE/File Menu/Set Playback Buffer Size) should be set to #2 The Disk Cashe setting in the memory control panel (Apple Menu/Control Panel/Memory) should be set to 512k or lower.