audio suite render followed by long spinning ball

[citysoundman]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

I had these similar problems with Audiosuite and bounce to disc and it turned out to be a permissions problem on the disc.
Another time it was caused by an external thunderbolt dock, whereas writing files to an internal drive was instantaneous.
It may not be your problem, but worth a try.

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Mmm I'll bite on that as well. I think a longer shot than a plugin but worth checking... what exact make/model external SSD and how exactly is it connected to the computer? And what file system is on it? All audio files in the session are stored on that one location? Like all in the session folder?

A good quick test if you have space may be to drag a copy of that session to the internal super fast NVMe SSD and try running it there.

And what is your disk cache meter showing??

Good suggestion Cheese, so I copied a session to my internal drive but the behavior is exactly the same.

My drive is an OWC SSD 250 with USB 3 cable, connected directly to the Mac. Formatted Mac OS Extended, GUID.

Disk Cache meter - you mean in System Usage? In this session it's reading 5%.

[Cheesehead]

Sorry it didn't work.
I've had Pro Tools not responding messages that seemed to be caused by a previous version of Eucon. Are you running an old version of Eucon? Try quitting it and trying the same thing.
Do you have re-wire running in the session, that's also caused problems for me.
Otherwise I'm out of ideas. I run RX9 de-reverb and Dialogue Isolate all the time and no beachballs here, so I doubt it's an RX thing.