Working around audio cutoffs when changing scenes?

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mostroid
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Working around audio cutoffs when changing scenes?

Post by mostroid » Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:45 pm

I'm running a 2009 Macbook Pro (13 inch) with Ableton Live 8.2.2. I'm currently working with a huge project (28 scenes, around 30 tracks, including 3 or 4 external VSTs), and am beginning to experience the audio stuttering and/or cutting off for a moment when switching between scenes (CPU usage is around 40-50%). Is this solvable without having to sample every single clip (of dozens) and add them to audio tracks instead? I don't mind doing this, but it's going to take a long time...

Anyone have any ideas?

DSPI
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Re: Working around audio cutoffs when changing scenes?

Post by DSPI » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:25 pm

Freeze the MIDI tracks, then flatten them, and you've instantly got audio tracks. No need to sample or bounce MIDI tracks to audio and it's much, much quicker.
I quite often do this to cut down on CPU usage and all my PA sets are done like this. 8)

mostroid
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Re: Working around audio cutoffs when changing scenes?

Post by mostroid » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:48 pm

DSPI wrote:Freeze the MIDI tracks, then flatten them, and you've instantly got audio tracks. No need to sample or bounce MIDI tracks to audio and it's much, much quicker.
I quite often do this to cut down on CPU usage and all my PA sets are done like this. 8)
Ah, I completely forgot about this function! I saw it in a video ages ago but hadn't thought about it since! Thanks!

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Re: Working around audio cutoffs when changing scenes?

Post by DSPI » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:28 pm

You're very welcome 8)

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