ohmstudio BETA

A 30 second WAV file is 30 seconds of samples, regardless of if it's mixed from one track or 200.  If you export 1 30 second sequence to a WAV file, you'll get 1 30 second WAV file.  If you export 200, you'll get 200 30 second WAV files - i.e. 200 times as much data.

So... it depends on what you want - do you want to work on the 11 tracks separately in OhmStudio as audio tracks?  If so, you're going to have 11 audio file to import...

I think it's more important to think about what OhmStudio is about -- collaboration.  Do you want everyone working on the project to have to download a complete CD's worth of data to work on your track?

There's two ways of looking at this.

1) You want 11 tracks of equal length so they all line up when imported.  In that case, they're all the same length = all the same number of samples.  Silence is still time is still samples is still size.

2) You want 11 tracks that you have to manual align after importing.  In that case, open each in an audio editor like Audacity, chop off the leading and trailing silence, then import.  (You can get tools that automate the "chop off the leading and trailing silence", I think.)

But a 30 second track is 30 seconds of something, even if it's silence.  It's all sample space.

Now my OhmStudio won't start... gah...

-edit- Fixed: damn corrupt caches... -/edit-
I had another program accessing my Echo AudioFire when I ran OhmStudio; expectedly, it crashed.  However, it looks like it took out the caches whilst crashing...

Hi Harry. Hi Peter.

There are no limit to the size of a Project. If that ever becomes the case, we'll let you know about it and probably offer some kind of tools to "clean up" a project.
You should do as Peter suggested and import your audio files simultaneously so that they all line up. Create a new project then select all the samples in your Explorer then drag & drop them below the "Master Rack" Track. This will create a new Rack for each audio file.

The main limitation is your upload speed. Uploading several hundreds of MB will of course require time.
Each audio file is compressed 3 times. While it is being uploaded, you can select an Audio Pattern and open the Inspector to see 3 progressbars: they correspond to the 3 compressed audio files.
You'll notice that the most compressed file is uploaded first, so that other members can download it as soon as it becomes available.
This is the reason why you can open a public project and start playback almost instantly eventhough you don't have all the samples contained in that project on your hard drive: the Ohm Studio quickly grabs the most compressed files starting with the ones that appear at the begening of the project.

I think that compression algorithms are very effective with audio files that contain large amount of silence... in theory.
So don't bother removing silence before importing your samples.

I hope that clears things up a little bit.

Thanks Orange Force for the info...and yes, Im using Reason6...so I will need to check out the bounce mixer channels separately...I noticed this in Reason...