FL Studio Guru | FL Studio 32 vs 64 Bit Video Lecture | FL Studio: Become an Expert (English) - Video & Sound Editing

in this tutorial we'll cover 32 vs.
64-bit applications FL studio' is
available in both 32 and 64-bit the
difference is all about virtual memory
so let's start there virtual memory is
the address space available to each
application for storing and retrieving
program data virtual address space is
like a post box number at the post
office let's say we have four digits to
number post boxes with that you can post
10,000 unique letters in post office box
0 to 9999 with a 5 digit code
you can post a hundred thousand letters
inbox zero to ninety 9999 now imagine
rather than post boxes the numbers point
to locations in memory where data can be
stored following this principle
computers work in binary
so a 32-bit number is 2 to the power of
32 a 32-bit program can access 4
gigabytes of data 64-bit applications 2
to the power of 64 can theoretically
address 16 exabytes of data that's 16
billion gigabytes but this was thought
to extravagant so it's currently limited
to 8 thousand gigabytes how sad for
digital audio workstation software like
FL studio memory is mainly used by
sampled data now here's the point that
causes the most confusion no matter how
much RAM or physical memory you have
this has no effect on the virtual memory
available to applications for storing
their data why is that if you don't have
enough RAM to store data
then the operating system uses a file on
your hard drive to extend it on windows
this is known as a page file the catch
is your hard disk or solid-state drive
is a lot slower than Ram so programs
slow down when the data spills out of
RAM and on to the disk for music
production software this means an
increased likelihood of underruns
audio glitches when the buffer runs out
of data it's worth emphasizing that
these virtual memory limits are per
program each application or process can
have its own to four or eight thousand
gigabytes of memory to play with so what
happens when you run out of virtual
memory space this is quite possible with
a 32-bit application usually you'll get
an error or a crash 64-bit applications
can run out of memory address based too
but in reality it's not going to happen
8,000 gigabytes is about 13,500 hours or
1.5 years of CD quality audio data so
does this mean that FL studios 64-bit
can load more samples and audio than FL
studio 32-bit well no FL studio 32-bit
includes several memory management
techniques that allow you to bypass the
32-bit four gigabyte limitation they
work by loading samples and VST plugins'
in two separate processes that is like
separate programs running in parallel
with FL studio so these processes don't
add to FL studios virtual memory total
the options include bridging plugins
from the wrapper here
or using tape on disk in the channel and
audio clip sampler settings here and the
general settings here
the 32-bit version of FL Studio will
even run 64-bit plugins they can take
advantage of the total eight terabytes
of 64-bit virtual memory okay all great
so far but while you can access as much
memory as a 64-bit application with FL
studio 32-bit Ecore FL studio 32-bit
process is still limited to 4 gigabytes
and so out of memory errors can occur
when editing very long audio files in
Edison or when the memory management
techniques are not used this won't
happen with FL studio 64-bit so does it
matter if you use FL studio 32 or 64-bit
we recommend using 32-bit plugins in the
32-bit version and 64-bit plugins in the
64-bit version of FL studio as bridging
plugins uses some CPU if you have a
large library of 32-bit plugins not
available in 64-bit then we recommend
you stick with FL studio 32-bit on the
other hand if you're working with very
large sample libraries and multi
gigabytes of audio clips then FL studio
64-bit is the best one to use of course
if you're on windows 32-bit then you'll
have to use FL studio 32-bit windows
64-bit will run both 32 and 64-bit
versions of FL studio so there you have
it
your RAAM does not limit how many
gigabytes of samples or plugins you can
load the memory bit depth of the program
or plugin does FL Studio 32-bit can use
just as much memory and RAM as FL Studio
64-bit but it needs some tricks to do so
finally stick to using mostly 32-bit
plugins in FL studio 32-bit and mostly
64-bit plugins in FL studio 64-bit until
next time enjoy your virtual memory
you
you