Auto-save usually takes under 10 seconds for me. I have it set to every 30 minutes and just manually save whenever I make significant progress between. I use auto-save as an excuse to look away from the screen and stretch a bit. The large template workflow is worth it to me because I can search for instruments so fast, and importing tracks from a master template is more cumbersome and can take just as long for me.May I ask how long the auto-save takes?!