Why are Reason .RNS files so big?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 3:05 pm
So I was doing a collaboration, with my friend on the internet. He sends me .rns file that contains 4 different guitar midis with NNXT, and redrum. The file is 155kb, and easily was sent through facebook. Yet when I make a .rns file it ususally goes up to 1 gig or 2, which requires me to use mediafire which is time consuming.
So I decided to do some tests. I tried to trim all my audio. I try to use less fx. I try to bounce stuff to audio / keep stuff as midi. Change it from 44k - 22k in resolution. Nothing changed, it was still 1 gig. So I decided to just have a complete empty rack with nothing on it at all. I saved it and it 43.5 mb? What is taking up all this space? How is my friend able to send a song to me at 155kb, he is not compressing or anything. He sends me the raw .rns file. Even he doesn't understand why.
I never really notice this until this incident, because I never usually collaborate.
What the hell is going on here?

So I decided to do some tests. I tried to trim all my audio. I try to use less fx. I try to bounce stuff to audio / keep stuff as midi. Change it from 44k - 22k in resolution. Nothing changed, it was still 1 gig. So I decided to just have a complete empty rack with nothing on it at all. I saved it and it 43.5 mb? What is taking up all this space? How is my friend able to send a song to me at 155kb, he is not compressing or anything. He sends me the raw .rns file. Even he doesn't understand why.
I never really notice this until this incident, because I never usually collaborate.
What the hell is going on here?

