How can I make Audition faster?

[Yukanes]

Hi! I'm making podcasts using Audition, but it sometimes works too slow.

Device: MacBook Air (2020), Apple silicone M1, RAM 16GB, Storage 512GB

App: Audition ver. 14.2 (latest)

Situation:

I used "Delite silence/Clean up podcast interview preset" for 2 Tracks, which are 30 min long.

After split them, I moved the split clips to the other tracks. (This already takes a long time)

When I try to move or delete one clip, the rainbow swirling appears and it spins for a few minutes.

This is my first use of the automatic "delete silence" feature, so is it normal behavior?

Is this feature needs high memory?

I think my machine has enough memory and power, and I don't use other apps too much at the same time.

I'm glad if you have any solution.

Thanks!

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Couldn't really tell you, because it's a Mac. The only thing I can suggest is that you might want to look at the way your computer is handling temp files. A single 512GB drive isn't exactly large for a system these days, and it's having to deal with whatever the operating sytem wants to do as well. It's possible that the system is prioritising its own needs over Audition's. The usual solution is to provide a dedicated drive for temp files - which for 30 minutes of audio won't exactly be small - instead of trying to use the same disk as the system is. Audition has to use temp files for operations like this - you'd run out of RAM very rapidly.

Admittedly I do quite a lot of work on my system, and it's PC based - but I have dedicated external drives for temp files and audio storage, and the drive storage runs into TB, not GB. Separating functions out onto discrete drives that the OS doesn't want to play with is definitely the way to go, regardless of whether it's a Mac or a PC, and having a dedicated, fast drive (SSD) for the temp files generally speeds things up considerably.

[Yukanes]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for your reply.

Now I understand my machine spec is not enough. I will try to move temp files to the external drive.

I hope if I can use "automatic delete silence" like Adobe's official introduction video.

Thank you.

[آقای38663540q8er]

hi . i have both OS . a gaming pc and a m1 mac. and the problem is exactly the same as Yukanes ! in my pc deleting silence is very slow and using 15 % cpu and 20 % of my ram . i have 64 G  ram . and in the software prefences i allocated 58 G to audition. and my storage is 2 tb SSD samsung 990pro and its 60% free.