Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Posted by: dkaye Date:1/30/2005 6:03:23 PM I work with large files, sometimes over an hour of 24-bit stereo, for radio. Certain operations such as Save (even just WAV), normalize, etc., become much slower with larger files. I don't mean just 2x with a show that's 2x in lenght, but substantially slower, nonlinearly. Is there a critical resource I can supply to speed things up? I'm on a 2.4GHz Pentium, Windows XP, with 1GB RAM and lots of disk. I wonder if there's some kind of disk thrashing going on. Some paging activity. Any thoughts?
Subject:RE: Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Reply by: mpd Date:1/31/2005 6:45:17 AM I routinely have 100-200 meg files open at a time and generally don't have a problem on my 3.2 GHz / 1 GB machine. There are a couple of things I have noticed. Don't delete your .sfk files as they will take a while to regenerate. Large project files take a long time to open and save. I have had a few that have taken 10-15 minutes to open. Defrag your drive often. HTH
Subject:RE: Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Reply by: spiderlegs Date:2/1/2005 8:39:23 AM Defrag your drive often. If you create alot of new tracks very often, the above should be your mantra. When I'm doing some serious recording/mixing, I routinely have to defrag my hard drive weekly, sometimes (when the recording is all day every day) I've even defragged twice in one week. When the file header and the actual data get separated and you have an older processor, then keeping those big files in one piece is CRUCIAL. It really affects multitracking software (like Cubase). When you have 10 or 12 tracks with effects rolling at once, and those tracks are fragmented, it can do anything from muting one or more tracks to crashing your system. Will 8.0 support multitracking? I'd use SoundForge exclusively if you could record more than 2 tracks in it.
Subject:RE: Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Reply by: dkaye Date:2/3/2005 5:50:46 PM I have no problem at the 100-200MB range. I'm talking about 1GB+ files. One hour stereo 24-bit uncompressed. ...doug
Subject:RE: Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Reply by: mpd Date:2/4/2005 7:14:00 AM Does the HD thrash when you are working with these files? If so, then I suspect that you don't have enough memory and you are swapping a lot. You may want to think about more memory.
Subject:RE: Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files? Reply by: rgrimes Date:2/6/2005 7:20:40 AM Monitoring SoundForge via TaskManager while running a plug in chain on a > 1GB file I noted a huge amount of disk activity, yet SoundForge never used more than around 70MB of RAM (I have 3GB RAM installed). Is there any way to get SoundForge to take advantage of this RAM rather than disk swapping all the time?

Subject:Sound Forge 7.0 Slow With Large Files?

Posted by: dkaye

Date:1/30/2005 6:03:23 PM

I work with large files, sometimes over an hour of 24-bit stereo, for radio. Certain operations such as Save (even just WAV), normalize, etc., become much slower with larger files. I don't mean just 2x with a show that's 2x in lenght, but substantially slower, nonlinearly.

Is there a critical resource I can supply to speed things up? I'm on a 2.4GHz Pentium, Windows XP, with 1GB RAM and lots of disk. I wonder if there's some kind of disk thrashing going on. Some paging activity. Any thoughts?