Batch MIDI Export Speed Questions
In REAPER 5.91, the importing of 20,000 mdi items into a track is very fast, about a minute (it seems and feels like it).
The exporting of one midi item from the Project Bay seems deceptively fast, about one second or less.
BUT the exporting of 20,000 mdi items from the Project Bay seems very slow, about 5.5 hours ( I don't really know for sure, I'm doing it now and still waiting)
I did it about 5 days ago as a test with 422 midi items and it didn't take hours.
But now, the math is 20,000 midi items multiplied by one second = 20,000 seconds. Again, that works out to be about 5.5 hours, if I got my math right.
These midi items are all in 4/4 and are all 4 beats long or one bar.
Is my computer totally to be blamed for the slow speed or is REAPER partly to blame?
Or am I doing something wrong?
My offline computer is run by Windows 7 and the BIOS screen states it was made in 2010. I remember It has 4 CPUs and 8GB RAM. I forget what the CPU speed is and can't look it up because the computer is busy with the task of saving the midi items.
Currently, I just presume I can't/won't compare other DAWs ro REAPER because those other DAW's evaluation methods seem to be a hassle.
Create an account, asks for your emai, not full version, etc.
With other DAWs, it's not a "just download it" process, right?
By the way, if the task takes 5.5 hours, I'm okay with that, since in the mean time I can do other things like play scrabble or ask possibly dumb questions in this forum.
But if I'm doing something wrong, and there's a way to speed things up easily then I would rather find out and maybe save even more time.
Okay, thanks very much in advance, no matter the outcome.
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