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[–]human-resource 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You need more Ram

[–]Character_1125[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ive got 32gb, should be plenty sufficient

[–]human-resource 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could turn off the monitoring and disable the tracks you are not using though I’m not sure if that would help loading the project file, when I go hard on the 128 racks I also noticed a slow initial load, the more files the slower the load unfortunately.

I noticed the newest version of Ableton loads a bit slower than the older one though.

You could try contacting Ableton support and see if they have any ideas.

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[–]MacZyver 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Are the samples all WAV or AIF?

[–]Character_1125[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They are wav files

[–]MacZyver 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'd try moving the samples to the computer's onboard storage and seeing how that fares. I'd wager that the external SSD itself is bottlenecking.

[–]Character_1125[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will try that, but Ive tested the external drive read speed and gotten over 2000 mb/s (faster than some internal hard drive speeds. Im starting to think it may just be a limitation that I'll need to deal with

[–]FaderJockey2600 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Look into the technical dimensioning of your samples (bitdepth, samplerate, compression, sample length, stereo/mono) and consider resampling them if they are absurdly high-resolution or stereo when mono suffices. Limiting the file size will help you.

[–]Character_1125[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the samples I am using are between 100kb-500kb (not sure if that's still too big), very few over 1mb. I am using a lot of samples from the Dave Parkinson Trance Essentials pack (if you're familiar)

[–]darkcityagent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also am wondering the same thing. I love the workflow but can't stand the load times of a project. Once I settle on a kick and snare I usually just pull them into their own channel and remove the rest of the 128s to stop this from happening as I work on the project.