Thanks for the SWA video tutorials I found them extremely helpful.
Whilst yes it did take sometime to get through all 9 hours... it was worth it. How?
Audio Setup
Despite having a respectable i7 865k, 8Gb RAM and a Roland Quad Capture, I was still experiencing drop out's even with half a dozen tracks!
Since following the optimisation tips this has become a thing of the past.
I record an older very experienced musician with a classical background. This means we often work in unusual time signatures and almost exclusively the Staff View. This has been frustrating when it renders an 1/8 as a 1/4 note by default. Thanks to SWA I can dramatically improve this and my classical colleague was extremely happy yesterday.
I use East West symphonic orchestra and frustratingly hadn't figured out key switching before SWA. With hindsight it was very straight forward, but it took the well presented SWA tutorial for the penny to drop.
All in all thank you again for the tutorial, I have learnt a huge amount and it was clearly worth it.
For anyone else daunted by the 9 hour running time, I can say that sticking with it yielded me the rewards.