Freezing tracks?

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lemon
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Freezing tracks?

Post by lemon » Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:49 am

hi,

what are you guys doing when running out of CPU power?
Bouncing tracks, freezing tracks(not sure if you can in Live)
or what?

lemon :(

secretagentgel
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not an option

Post by secretagentgel » Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:29 pm

im starting to come up against maxing out the cpu. it's tough. so far ive either done partial mix downs or greatly increased my latency.

corey

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Post by udp » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:26 pm

routing 1 or more midi tracks through audio tracks and then "bouncing" them works for me. Then instead of deleting the original midi track I simply shut off the vsti that way if I want to change something in the midi I can. Hope this helps.

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secretagentgel
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nice

Post by secretagentgel » Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:28 pm

that's really smart. thanks,

corey

Harris.Andrew
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good way to bounce tracks?

Post by Harris.Andrew » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:23 am

hey udp, was wondering if you had a clean way to bounce tracks, everytime i bother trying to figure that out i always get recordings with bars of silence . . . is their a good way to tell "record this channel, for this exact length" ?

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Post by theofficials » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:45 pm

udp wrote:routing 1 or more midi tracks through audio tracks and then "bouncing" them works for me. Then instead of deleting the original midi track I simply shut off the vsti that way if I want to change something in the midi I can. Hope this helps.

I'm running on an old B/W G3 upgraded to 1ghz G4, Tascam us-122.
Udp - what an absolutely awesome tip. What seems obvious to some isn;t so str8 forward to others.

I have needed to save on my CPU 'juiceage useage' b4 and I must admit I didn't really think that my process was the best way.. I merely saved a b4 bouncedown and after bouncedown, but my way I lost all the original midi work.

What is Freezing tracks anyway ? OR should I rtfm ?
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Post by toyo » Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:27 pm

freezing comes from Logic,i think, if you run out of cpu in logic you freeze a track, it renders it to disk and saves cpu, but you won't be able to change anything without unfreezing it.
hope this helps

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Post by futureproof » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:16 am

udp wrote:routing 1 or more midi tracks through audio tracks and then "bouncing" them works for me. Then instead of deleting the original midi track I simply shut off the vsti that way if I want to change something in the midi I can.


Yup, thats what I do and thats why Live needs a hide tracks feature.
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-some dude on KVR.

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