Hi everyone, I am working on a very large project that is around 1000 measures for a full orchestra. I am experiencing some seriously insane slowdowns in my workflow. I am currently engraving, and every time I make a slight condensing change, it takes a full minute and a half to actually make that change. My computer is a Mac Studio with an M2 Ultra, 192 GB of RAM. Is there anything I can do at all to make it perform better/quicker? Thanks for your help!
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I’m not a Mac guy, but a wild guess would be to maybe try and apply the silent playback template, so that Dorico doesn’t have to calculate the VSTs on top of the engraving. If you need playback at this stage, I’m out of suggestions, unfortunately… 
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I am running a similar system - mine is an M3 Max with 128GB RAM, and I’m not experiencing anything like this on big projects. Sorry I don’t have any advice, but it’s definitely worth investigating as it shouldn’t be like that on your rocketship of a machine.
Well, again, I’m not a Mac expert, but 1000 bars big orchestra is quite the project…
And an M2 is not the same as an M3, plus the amount of ram is not too important in this context, as opposed to raw single core performance.
I’ll shut up now, since I’ve used a Mac about twice in my life for a total of around 5 minutes… 
I use Silent Playback template in everything.
It might be worth opening these Rite of Spring files, here -
There have been lots of threads about speed of editing, etc. using these files. They are pretty speedy on my M3 MacBook Pro, and if your experience is similar, then there may be something going on with your project. But 1000 bars is quite a lot, for sure.
Update: It seems the main issue is that it is 1000 straight uninterrupted bars. Other, much larger projects that are broken into different flows work just fine and are speedy. So I will split this up into separate flows and let you all know if that works! Thank you, everyone, for your help.
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It works, thanks again for everyone’s help!
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