Ableton Forum

hey all
i have encountered another problem as i try to make the best of my Live Lite and an old lappy...im recording entire songs, guitar, vocals, piano...everything, im limited to 8 tracks with the lite version and running a 2 gig processor...so im bouncing audio tracks together in real time to make room for more but the more times i do this the slower it gets. on the song im currently working on. its to the point where i have an empty track but there's so much going on that the cpu is overloaded (i assume)...it freezes during recording sometimes for as long as 2 -3 seconds...is there a way to force the program to ignore all tracks but the ones im actually using at this exact moment so the cpu isnt overloaded?? or any other tricks??
thanks!!

I'm assuming you've frozen and flattened everything you can. The best you can do is mute the track and buy yourself a little bit of space to work. If I were you I would just download another free audio editor for when you want to mash everything together. I'm running into this same problem with a particularly CPU hungry plugin. I'm on a brand new MacBook though.

thanks man, ive seen tutorials on freezing and flattening but thats in session view, i only have used arrangement view and dont understand what freezing and flattening is..? also to further display my ignorance umm in arrangement view i cant see how to mute a track...
THANK YOU

Read the manual for one. That will better explain freezing/flattening. Long and short: freezing disables editing the content of the track, flattening renders it with effects and all to a new audio file. You can do this in arrangement as well as session. To mute the track click on it's highlighted number in session or arrangement.

thanks man