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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?

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.

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.

Ah, I completely forgot about this function! I saw it in a video ages ago but hadn't thought about it since! Thanks!

You're very welcome