DanMason Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Assuming you have a multicore CPU, do check that the following setting in aud.ini is set to 1: AllowOfflineRenderMixThreads=1 The help file has this the wrong way round, so if you've set it to 0 (intentionally or otherwise), you'll be using just one core for exports. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanMason Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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