VERY long save time - RESOLVED

Ok, I have been a happy bunny ever since the original X1a - nothing serious to cry about. Last night, completely fresh project in X1c. As I got further into the recording (a mix of 24 bit wave files, loops dropped in and Dimension Pro/Z3ta) the save was taking forever. 3-4 minutes every time. I had to disable autosave as it was getting so tedious. The same happened everytime I manually saved it. Anyone got any ideas?  

daryl1968


Ok, I have been a happy bunny ever since the original X1a - nothing serious to cry about. Last night, completely fresh project in X1c. As I got further into the recording (a mix of 24 bit wave files, loops dropped in and Dimension Pro/Z3ta) the save was taking forever. 3-4 minutes every time. I had to disable autosave as it was getting so tedious. The same happened everytime I manually saved it. Anyone got any ideas?  

Is it just one project or all of them? I experienced this on one project and it was helped a little by disabling audiosnap on some tracks. Audiosnap BTW can be active on a track even if you think you're not using it. That helped quite a lot but that project was always much slower to save than usual.

I've put that one to bed now and not had a repeat since even having audiosnap active on tracks. I never really did get to the bottom of it. The only other thing I thought of was a rogue plugin was having an effect.

Don't know if it's related, but I experience extremely long save times when I save whilst editing multitrack drums with audiosnap. This did not happen in versions prior to X1...

Still have this problem - I'm confused as it only seems to be on this one project. - No non-Cakewalk plug ins being used. - Only 3 softsynth tracks (Dim Pro) - all frozen. I have had tons of these tracks running (unfrozen) on other projects without any issues. - Not a huge amount of fx being used. - Control bar minimized throughout - Audiosnap disabled - Save type is 'Normal' - not a bundle save or anything weird. - Save time - 3 minutes! PLEASE HELP

Hi Daryl,
 Send that project in to Cakewalk.


best regards,
mike

I have noticed that on some projects that use particular Synths and Samplers, the saves take forever - Control Bar or not.. Anything with lots of MIDI, if I recall correctly.

Thanks guys - I appreciate it.

daryl1968


Happy ending. I did 'Save As' and saved as a different file name and, voila - normal save time. Weird but happy now.

Just a thought here but if effectively creating a new file and nothing else cured the long save times and you are using RAID (according to your setup) there is a possibility that you have a defective disk sector and this is causing an IO problem with your RAID controller. Not sure what tools you can use with your controller but the windows chkdsk utility may mark defective sectors so they get skipped in the future. Never used it on a system with a RAID array so pardon me if that would not be the best way to go.

Resurrecting an old thread but I suddenly started having a longer than normal save time that even made me turn autosave off it was that annoying. I thought it was my karma because I'd been singing autosaves praises a while ago.

Any way turns out that very unusually for me, there was no audio in the project, just MIDI. As soon as I recorded some audio the save time became normal. Switched on autosave and all is good again.

I would not normally notice this as I usually have at least one audio scratch track somewhere in a new project but this one didn't. It might explain why some complain about autosave interrupting their workflow as well.

Can anyone confirm a longer than usual save time with MIDI data only present in a project?