Rich, I don't know if the process of rendering involves regenerating. I suppose it must. As far as regenerating, yes there is an improvement in speed using .WAV (whether audiophile or just uncompressed) but it is small. When the Elastique algorithm was introduced to RealTracks, the difference in regeneration time became even less.

John is correct, the files expand to roughly 10 or 11 times the size when uncompressed.

I should mention that I don't use rendering, so I'm not a good judge of how long it takes or how to speed that up. I have a Roland Fantom synth so I record in real time.


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