Offline Processing

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:46 pm

Dont know if this would be possible to implent, but this is a feature i even bought Cubase for back in the day. I do miss it.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:28 pm

For what specifically? Freeze and flatten are very useful for offline FX processing.

I wouldn't mind an ultra-high quality offline warp...

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:57 pm

For processing audio offline. As example; adding a effect on a bit of audio instantly, without having to go the whole yard of resampling (even tho its pretty quick).

Freeze does this kind of, but u cant re-offline-process and edit it further when frozen. The ones familiar with Cubase know what i mean..

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:09 pm

You can still do some types of editing on frozen tracks.

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:47 pm

Like re-processing, i.e re-freeze?
Thats the important thing.

kenporter · Post by **kenporter** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:24 pm

I agree, I miss offline processing too. Offline processing is great to just select a piece of audio and put a reverb on that, then select another little snippet to put some distortion on that, etc. It's much faster than resampling, or freeze. The cool thing about offline processing in Cubase is that it remembers the history too.

Two thumbs up from me for offline processing.

Ken

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:20 am

I'm not trying to dismiss your request, I'm just trying to point out some options both for yourself and others who may read this.

Many editing functions remain available to tracks that are frozen. Launching clips can still be
done freely, and mixer controls such as volume, pan and the sends are still available. Other
possibilities include:
ˆ Edit, cut, copy, paste, duplicate and trim clips;
ˆ Draw and edit mixer automation and mixer clip envelopes;
ˆ Consolidate;
ˆ Record Session View clip launches into the Arrangement View;
ˆ Create, move and duplicate Session View scenes;
ˆ Drag frozen MIDI clips into audio tracks.

And you can always unfreeze, change settings, and re-freeze. This is probably slower than what you are suggesting, I dunno.

kenporter · Post by **kenporter** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:17 am

It's way slower if I just want to let's say process one measure of a beat or so. I would have to unfreeze, edit the part, refreeze to make one little change. With offline processing, I select the measure and process it, that easy. And the best part is that it saves the process history...if you've never used it you don't know what you're missing. Once you've used it you never want to be without.

Ken

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:57 pm

Can only agree with Ken.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:55 pm

Sounds excellent.

mercyplease · Post by **mercyplease** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:58 pm

the concept is lost on many. its the same as pro tools audiosuite but very few people ever understand the power of this style of processing sx 3 has a great offline undo history for it

Airwave · Post by **Airwave** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:05 am

they call it destructive editing too. The good thing about it is that you don't need to create an extra file, this way you spare your hard drive a few months more life.

L.

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:20 am

Meantime however, we do have the option to;
- Mark a snip of audio, drag it to a new audio track, put efx etc. on it, Freeze & Flatten it, drag it back.

So it looks to me, like the basics already is there, just needs to be finetuned a bit.