DanMason

Hmm I've answered my own question here. Unfortunately it's an embarrassing answer! When I played back after the export had finished, it was the entire 150 minute project instead of the 5 minutes I'd selected. My first time using the "Export" shortcut in the menu bar instead of going via the File menu... turns out I hadn't noticed that there are two radio buttons and the default is "Project" rather than "Selection". D'oh!

Hi, this happened to me for the first time tonight. Exporting a 5 minute track to FLAC format, 48k 16-bit. This would normally take about 30-60 seconds. At the moment it's on course to take about 40 minutes. Now this is radically different from similar tracks I've worked on recently in that it uses quite a lot of plugins, and several of them are new to me. So my main question really is whether the use of particular VSTs within a project is likely to have a major effect on the time taken for mixing down audio. I'm less bothered about tracking down a culprit initially. It's hitting the CPU pretty hard during this (30%) although I notice Cakewalk is using very little RAM (400MB).