SpectraLayers 11 ARA2 in Pro Tools chokes when loading in a simple BG track

I’m attaching a track for reference. This is typical of a post track I work with. SL11 hung for a while loading the track, then couldn’t process the audio, then choked when I tried to remove SL11 ARA instantiation from the track. This track is sparsely populated compared to some of my other tracks.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d1sxtzfsn8qz8hfvpajc2/Copy-of-Cub-Camp-Eps-105-SYNC-BG-EDIT-A.recovered.zip?rlkey=2rsqx9kw5agxypreo9fjzirv9&dl=0

lots of ARA woes to be found on this forum…I’m sticking to standalone until I hear users raving on this forum how great ARA is…so far I have not heard that

@Damian_Kearns what’s your exact computer configuration ?
Seems to work fine here, after 10 seconds finishing the transfer (Macbook Air M3) :

That being said, it indeed took a while to remove SpectraLayers from your track.
I’ll check to see if there are some optimizations that can be done.

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My computer is an iMac Pro with 32 GB’s of RAM. All my drives are SSD. I’m usually pretty quick with this stuff even though I’m on an older chipset.

Robin,

Here’s a link to my System Report. I’m currently using the latest builds of Pro Tools and SL11.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4trf28lelf7viy7e32xxo/iMac-Pro.spx?rlkey=m3j1rkx0xe4yr22xjclz0ppki&dl=0

@Damian_Kearns I did some investigations and lots of optimizations when loading/unloading SpectraLayers ARA on loaded tracks like in your example, with hundreds of audio clips.

On my macbook air m1 it previously took 10 seconds to finish loading, and several minutes to unload.
With the upcoming 11.0.50 optimization it now takes less that one second to finish loading, and less that one second to unload.

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Hi Robin,

Cool!.

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