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@vaartis 80% is just uncompressed .wavs

@lebronjames75 I wonder why not use some lossless compression at least

@vaartis (de)compressing audio on the fly is quite expensive (atleast on the scale used). the virtual instruments that use them already use a truckload of CPU while playing 4+gb worth of wav audio samples constantly at the same time, decompressing that on the fly would be extremely costly for the CPU (that is already taxed to hell and beyond))

pic rel, CPU usage on my desktop rn only by my DAW when playing a song in realtime

@lebronjames75 why not ship them compressed and uncompress on import into the project

@vaartis song projects with large samples instead of small ones would be 30+ gigs each, multiplied by amount of autosave backups

burdensome, + actually waiting to decompress would make me want to kill myself when looking through sample packs instead of it being 0.0 seconds instantaneous