Slow project (not certain if appropriate for forum?)

Hi, I have a project in which note input seems slow, or even very slow. I don’t know if one should post problems like that on the forum, but it appears to me that it would be even worse to bother Daniel or team with it. If anyone could have a try on it I’d be grateful.

I have a MacBook Pro, 2,6 GHz six core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR (I have no idea if those last details are of any significance). I think this is a late 2019 machine, the one that took over from the much maligned generation before it. But it has no M-processor, it’s too old for that. Considering people are writing operas in Dorico, a couple of hundred bars for a medium sized ensemble shouldn’t really be a match for it. I suspect the problem is at my end.

(Couldn’t even figure out how to make a small enough file of the 6 MB project so had to cut a third of it. Couldn’t find an option to preview the post. Apparently this is one of those days …)
The rite of spring-kopi.dorico (3.8 MB)

Is this “third” also slow?
Most of the size will be VST data: if you apply the “Silent” Playback template (and then save As a new filename), the file should be much shorter. (But of course, the problem may relate to the VSTs and samples in use…!)

Someone has already made a free Dorico file of the Rite of Spring, btw.

Dorico definitely gets slower for bigger projects. I did the Rite of Spring on the same laptop as Runter_vom_Sofa, and by the end it would take forever to make edits on the score. With the new M-chips from Apple, Dorico goes much faster, but it still takes about a second to (for example) change the pitch of a note.

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Yes, also slow – but maybe somewhat less so. (I use Noteperformer 4.)

Which stays nicely in tune with Stephen_Taylor’s thoughts:

So I guess my once excellent laptop is beginning to lag behind … knowing, as mentioned, that people keep operas, musicals and what other huge projects smoothly going in Dorico with, presumably, more powerful hardware. Thanks for your thoughts and insight, guys!

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