Cubase 14.0.32 & Spectralayers Pro -> autosaves forever and gives HUGE .bak files and

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Forgive if this belongs to the Spectralayers forum - please move then.

I purchased Spectralayers Pro today I I am blown away - immediately started using it via ARA within a large Cubase session - I used it in a track extension situation on a “crowd-ambience” track to split the crowd from the music. I am mixing a live show of about 2h duration. After I applied the SL processing Cubase autosaved my session - and it was doing that for about 20 min until I deleted Cubase.exe in the taskmanager. The .bak files was about 4GB large at that point. It seemed that it was not a freeze since the application was using CPU in taskmanager - but the Cubase GUI was frozen during that showing the “wait-circle”

I now render in SL seperately and import the result to new tracks.

Is this meant to be like that? The process with ARA / procession etc was super-convenient but the project was not usable anymore after autosave came in.

C14.0.32, latest SL Pro 12 version - Ryzon 9950xrd cpu, 64GB ram.

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In my opinion Steinberg committed a huge blunder by including ARA audio data in the project file.

ARA issues have become not only a performance issue, but also a something that can take the entire project down.

It’s one thing to lose a track. It’s a much bigger problem to loose an entire project file.

And doing that also created a project file compatibility problem between older and newer versions of Cubase.

As a result, I’ve taken to ignoring the presence of ARA in Cubase and use only alternative methods (depending on what’s available with each tool).