I’m in the layout phase of a huge orchestral composition and it’s extremely frustrating how incredibly slow every single action has become. To the point that the program crashes regularly. Is there any way that I can maybe uncouple any playback stuff from this document or do anything to speed up the process? With smaller files, dorico works just fine.
May be a few details may help the members of this forum to try solve your problem.
Mac or PC ?
Which OS ?
Which version of Dorico ?
What about VST configuration ? etc.
You can send it to @dspreadbury, so that the team can see what needs improving; or if there is anything particular in the file that is causing the problem.
Daniel was so kind to reply super quickly. Thank you all for your time. Indeed, it seems that my CPU is simply not powerful enough. At least I know what my options are now. Greetings from Leipzig!
Since many calculations in Dorico need to be done sequentially, it is beneficial to have a CPU with a fast single thread speed. Yours is pretty slow in that regard. If you’re chip shopping, maybe consider one of the faster CPUs on this list.
I think we’re pretty similarly spec’ed. My desktop is 5950x and laptop is M3 Pro 11 Core. I’m seriously considering jumping completely over to Mac next summer whenever the M4 Studio or Pros come out.
Dorico still needs to calculate the spacing for all those additional instruments, and much of that must be done sequentially (can’t calculate spacing on page 50 before page 5 for example), so yeah a CPU with really fast single core speed is pretty essential for large projects, especially if using Condensing.
Even if you don’t see the instruments (filter out a few instruments or use a custom layout), the calculation happens for all instruments I guess. Is this really necessary?