r/Reaper • u/3p1c_R3d1t_k1d_69 • 2d ago

help request Out of nowhere extremely slow exporting

I'm currently exporting individual multi tracks and it's taking hours. I have 8 songs to export and it is getting painfully long. Usually it only take about 2-5 minutes so jumping from that to hours, I wonder if there's anything that can be done that I wouldn't know about?

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u/Bred_Slippy 37 2d ago

Check you have a decent amount of hard disk space.  If so, it may be a rogue or resource-heavy plugin. Try turning them off one by one to see if it improves.  Also look into Batch Processing (which is v powerful in Reaper). 

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u/3p1c_R3d1t_k1d_69 2d ago

I know it wouldn't be plug ins since it's just raw recording on it's way to get mixed. Would the size of the hard drive I'm exporting it too mess around with the rendering time?

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u/Bred_Slippy 37 2d ago

It shouldn't do, unless there's little space left on it.  If it's just raw recordings then rendering should be very quick.  It may be something in your set up.  Hard to pinpoint.  Have a read through this and try some of its suggestions.  https://download.cantabilesoftware.com/GlitchFree.pdf 

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u/3p1c_R3d1t_k1d_69 1d ago

You saved me hours of pain! Haha I just changed the harddrive I was exporting to as a test and it's back to the usual 2ish min. Guess that cheap new USB wasn't good enough!

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u/Bred_Slippy 37 1d ago

Strange it was so slow. Glad you've got things sorted.  

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u/FatsDominoPizza 2d ago

In theory when there is little disk space left, windows has to use more cache, which is slow.

In practice, audio files are fairly small, so not sure whether that'd really happen.