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I have a real issue with the speed at which Live 5 draws out waveforms. I have never had this problem with 4 or 3. I work mainly with longer sets. When I open a set it can seriously take Live a few minutes to draw out the waveforms of a 30 minute long project. This is a set with 4 tracks of audio and no midi. This issue even occurs when I have a very short set, for instance a short song sketch. If the set is two minutes long I will see Live draw out the waveforms somewhat slowly. It's awful. It reminds me of Sonar 1. It can really waste valuable time when I'm trying to edit longer sets. If I have to wait 3 or more minutes for Live to draw a waveform so I can see what needs to be edited, I have just lost those 3 minutes forever.

And, sadly, I don't have 3 minutes to spare.

Any tips?

beginning to think live v5 has been coded by ketamin headz?

time to give Whitney Houston a call maybe...

again, i don't understand how this is possible if the .asd files are there.

which is obviously why you're frustrated

it would make me want to try reinstalling.

does it do this if you use your internal drive?