Unusable Response Times with large amount of clips

[WorldOfNoise]

While doing some drum editing in beat detective, and slicing tracks into thousands of clips, Pro Tools 12.2 slows down the point of being unworkable. Most notably, any slip editing, creating of elastic audio markers, dragging of fades, has a roughly 5 second delay before they perform their task.

This is a brand new build:
Windows 8.1 Pro
Xeon E5 1620
Supermicro X10SRA w C612
8GB Crucial DDR4
Kensington SSD for system
Seagate 7200 for audio and samples
AMD R7 370 w 2GB DDR5

All windows optimizations done.

The system has been rock solid otherwise. No errors in over a week. This is the first time I'm doing a lot editing on it.

Also, no CD in the drive, and I even unplugged the drive completely just in case.

[WorldOfNoise]

I've actually found that this issue is linked to a large amount of fades, and not items.

[Craig F]

12 what? I'm thinking 12.2 might help it

[WorldOfNoise]

I'm running Pro Tools 12.2 as stated in my initial post.

[Kris75]

If you have PT10 on hand, does it also show the slow response time when doing large amounts of edits?

[WorldOfNoise]

I didn't install it on the new build since I only pulled it up once since getting 12, but I'll do that later today and report back with results. I found a small work flow change that saves me some aggravation, but still, this is really annoying and never experienced this on my Mac Mini that was considerably slower in every way.

[Kris75]

Originally Posted by WorldOfNoise

I didn't install it on the new build since I only pulled it up once since getting 12, but I'll do that later today and report back with results. I found a small work flow change that saves me some aggravation, but still, this is really annoying and never experienced this on my Mac Mini that was considerably slower in every way.

I have the same issue and when dealing with thousands of clips PT 12 grinds to a halt. Moving to 10 to edit has been much faster. I have a feeling it's the lack of RAM in the machine. I noticed that we both have 8 gigs of RAM and the same OS disk.

[WorldOfNoise]

That's actually a mistake on my part as I typed this when I was way too tired. I have 16GB of RAM, and this session was nothing more than 5 instances of VMR, and 8 tracks of drums. Nothing should have been touching the RAM. I also experimented with disk cache, and that didn't help at all.

[Kris75]

How long is your session? I am not talking about clip length, but about the actual length of your timeline?

[WorldOfNoise]

3:30-4 minutes. All average songs.