Disabling tracks doesn't free up RAM

Cubase
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Hello guys,

I was advised to disable tracks when I want to free up RAM but unfortunately I disabled tons of tracks and it didn’t free up RAM at all not even a little.

Freezing them does free up RAM but takes lots of time and you can’t freeze multiple channels. What do you do in such case? Go through each channel and freeze it? (Can take a few hours…)

Or is there another way?

That’s strange because people do recommend to disable tracks and I watched a video about it for me it didn’t do anything, RAM usage stays the same
Thanks in advance

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Hi,

What kind of tracks do you disable, please?

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Kontakt libraries
A few Repro5 synths
and Keyscape

Thanks

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Hi,

Do you disable the MIDI Tracks, or the Instrument Track?

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The instrument tracks of course

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Hi,

Then it should work.

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Ok I’ll try again thanks, last time I tried it didn’t decrease RAM usage

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Did you succeed?
I have the same problem with audio instrument track… I disabled thoses tracks but they don’t free RAM

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MAC or PC?
MACs sometimes don’t show this immediately, it seems.

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With I learned how Cubase behaves with regards to memory. Usually it does free memory up but it can take a few minutes. And also I usually see that Cubase uses memory in correlation with how much you have. On my newer PC I have 64gb RAM, and in my projects it uses between 25gb to 35gb, and if I open the same projects in another pc with 32gb RAM then it will use around 20gb.

When you disable tracks, is this when you RAM consumption is near its maximum? If so then yes it should free some RAM.

I’m on Cubase 11 btw

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