Slow Saves, Large .cpr files? Clean up your Pool!

jamusic · March 2, 2014, 11:20pm

allisterbradley:

I had (notice the past tense) a problem with a particular project getting larger and larger, and taking an incredibly long time (several minutes) to save. It became necessary to turn off the AUTO SAVE, just to run a tracking session for a new performer.

My project file had increased to about 86MB in size. Yikes!

I’m proficient with Cubase, but I won’t call myself an expert yet, and it took an awful lot of digging through forums to find the solution, so I want to share it, in case it helps anyone else.

Did it have to do with VariAudio? With automatic hit-point detection? With sliced audio? With excess edit history?

Well, sort of. Bottom line - my Pool was full of files I was no longer using. Once I removed unused media and emptied the trash in my pool (didn’t need to erase the files), my project shrunk back down to 2.5MB, and now it saves in less than one second.

Note that using VariAudio, slicing and quantizing audio files, comping, etc., contributed to the increase in the number of files in the pool. Bouncing my comp and replacing the event with a new file DID NOT help at all, because the unused (old) files were still in my Pool.

So, before you go out and implement RAID across multiple hard drives, before you spend any money trying to throw more hardware at Cubase, take a look at your media Pool and see if you can remove excess files. It worked for me!

AB

Hey thanks & welcome fellow Canadian [- fellow Ontario-an]!

I’m new to Cubase since last June-July and haven’t ever though to do this. But I should.