rharv, I had to think about this because it's been quite a while. Yes, RB uses temp files but it doesn't allow you to save them with your current project so when you go to save your SEQ file it just saves it. There's is no option asking you what you want done with those files.

What Audition does is keep all your edit files readily accessible as you're working so you can make a change like cutting and pasting a piece of audio and it happens at the speed of your mouse click. I used to think, wow this Audition is so much faster than RB but it really isn't.

In Audition if you're moving audio around on a 16 track project over several hours you could have over a hundred of those temp files or maybe they're virtual instance program files, dunno. When you're finished and you want to do a final save you can't without telling it what you want done with those files individually. Flush is the main option and it can take some real time to flush a hundred files because they're not simply being deleted, each edit is now being rendered permanently. RB is doing that render as you work so at the end it's already done, all you do is hit save.

It's these sorts of things that makes it so difficult to compare DAW's. They all do things differently and it can take a part time user like most of us here years to figure all that out. You think this one is better than that one because you haven't figured how that other one really works yet.

Bob

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