Why does it take terminatorX so long to load samples?
This depends on the file your loading. Wavfiles are loaded with the buit-in wave loading routines (if enabled on compile time) and this happens very fast. For compressed audio files the necessary decompression will consume quite some CPU time on loading. Since Version 3.73 loading of audio files has been significantly accelerated with the libaudiofile, libvorbis and mad methods.