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ramscapri
 Rendering directly to a compressed format (like .mp3) possibly takes longer than to a .wav format maybe ? 

Yes because SONAR must export the wave and then encode the mp3 from the exported wave.

Yeah. Thought so that was the case. Haven't rendered to .wav for quite a while. Will do a comparison soon to see how much difference it makes for me. Thanks and cheers...

If I may make a suggestion, why don't you render to wav, then use winlame to convert to mp3. Do you not need a wav copy? Habit of mine as I always open up my rendered wav in SoundForge to see if there is clipping/xtra processing/left and right balance ok/frequency analyze/balance with other songs/rms values.

I consider my wav exports as my masters.

My Sonar exports are pre-masters.