AA2 Mulittrack 32-bit to 16-bit

It's not a session using a .ses file as such. But yes, in AA1.5 I open the 3 songs, bed file and 2 link files, do a bouncedown, it takes 12 secs. I close all files and exit. Open AA1.5 and repeat the above with the same files and it takes 12 secs again. I have 2GB RAM if it helps to know it.

AA2 I hasten to add, is still running after exit in all other use, so I have to manually end process every time.

In AA2, in Preferences | System I had set Wave cache at 500MB, using the logic that the more RAM I assign to AA2 the better, probably not fully understanding what this setting is about. After changing it to 50MB (I forget what the default is), the test boucedown now takes around 55 secs instead of 2 mins 35 secs. And now AA2 is not running after exit. Hmmm... I think I win 'idiot of the week' prize maybe   But I would like to know what Wave Cache is all about. In Photoshop fopr instance you can assign 50% RAM to it and it all runs much better, I guess it's not the same logic in play here with AA2.

See http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329242.html -

"Optimize Windows for Adobe Audition (1.5 - 2.0)"

and http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331631.html

"Troubleshoot recording, playback, and monitoring (Adobe Audition 2.0)"

for advice on the wave cache size, and many other matters.

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332282.html

"Troubleshoot Audition 2.0 mixer and automation" covers best use of the mixer and effects to conserve resources.

The Adobe tech docs are, I suspect, an underused resource by most of us including me.  There's a lot there.  http://www.adobe.com/support/products/audition.html takes you to the Audition page from which you can search.  http://www.adobe.com/support/recentdocuments/audition_recent.html takes you to recent documents which of course are mainly concerned with AA2.0.

The Adobe tech docs are, I suspect, an underused resource by most of us including me.  There's a lot there.

It would be really good if all this valuable material actually shipped with the product, as an adjunct to the manual.  That way people wouldn't need to go off to the web to hunt for it.

I can't see any explanation of what wave cache actually is, from Adobe. Most of the advice in those documents is very obvious getting-started stuff, a lot of which you can apply to the use of a lot of other software. I don't need it it to be more technical, I need it to be written by someone who designed the software and who loves using it, and I'm not feeling that when I read it.

Just wanted to say that since reducing the wave cache the bouncedown time in AA2 is now half what it was. But AA2 is still runnig after exit.

How about the Virtual Memory set to 1.5 times your RAM on Hardrive, or setting the background services over your programs?  Those are the big ones... You probably have done all that though.

Do you mean the Page File Size? That is already set correctly, as you've stated. It's all down to the fact that I can't do 16-bit mixdowns in AA2 now. I guess I've just got used to 8-minute bouncedowns now