Can Melodyne open files of any size or is this determined by the amount of available RAM?
The amount of available RAM affects the speed of the detection process and in this way has a bearing upon the maximum overall length of an audio file. The precise amount of RAM needed for this detection process depends upon the playing time of the file and its sample rate. It is NOT dependent upon the wordlength of the samples (16, 24 or 32 bits); NOR is it dependent upon the number of channels (mono or stereo). For this reason, any calculation of the amount of RAM needed has to be based not on the size of the file but upon its duration and sample rate.
[editor, assistant, essential RTAS, plugin] The RAM consumption of Melodyne editor, Melodyne assistant and Melodyne essential RTAS strongly depends on the files you are using. With melodic or percussive files you will notice that these editions need even less RAM than Melodyne plugin. On the other hand, with polyphonic files in Melodyne editor the RAM usage can be higher this is depending on the musical content of the files and can therefore not be foreseen in any MB-per-minute calculation. Whenever you encounter any RAM shortage on your system, there are a few strategies you can use to minimize the RAM consumption. First off you need to know that during and shortly after each transfer the RAM consumption is much higher than a while after the process. Therefore multiple simultaneous transfers temporarily increase the RAM usage a lot. A workaround for this would be to transfer tracks one after the other. Often there is no need to transfer a track from the very beginning to its very end.
