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I have about 16 tracks right now in Live mainly because there are tracked drums in the mix. I am using Guitar Rig and there are a few tracks utilizing it. I have already frozen all other tracks other than the one I am recording and I keep running into problems.

Is there a way to have a guitar intro start with one Guitar Rig preset and change to a different one without having to make a new track (hopefully utilizing automation)? I realize I can flatten the track but I really don't want to do that because I may decide to go back later and change the effect on the guitar and don't want to have to completely re-record the clip.

What I am left with right now is 6 Guitar Tracks all with different presets for different parts and it is seriously bogging my computer down. I would like to consolidate these into just a few tracks so I can finish this song.

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1. Dont flatten, Freeze that track. You can unfreeze a track later and change any effects.

2. I'm not entirely sure if this works with guitar rig... but making two tracks each with two seperate plugin effects that occur in series (not at the same time) should be no more intesive on your CPU than programming in abunch of automation to switch between presets on a single track.

I know for Live's built-in plugins and instruments, when they aren't in use they eat 0 (or nearly zero) CPU. The same might not be true for guitar rig, tho.


3. If guitar rig can respond to "program changes", then you can just draw in a single piece of MIDI CC data to change between two presets on one track... but you'll have to sonsult the guitar rig manual on that one.

PS, how many different guitar-rigs do you need running all at one time?

Using send/return tracks so that several different tracks can share one instance of a CPU-hogging effect can help. I often do this with a big reverb or Slayer VST.

When I was using guitar rig and i had multiple parts I would use one preset that housed all of my effects I used. Id load that in to an audio track and record the part.

Audio 1...................Audio 2

|>Guitar NO FX Clip....|> Sampled Guitar with FX (move to audio X for mixing)


Out to Audio 2............Ext IN From Audio 1


From there I just record the different parts with the needed effects and bounce them to Audio clips. Best part is if you need to make a few edits to clean up your playing you'll have that clean audio file you can tweak before you sample it with all the added effects.

You will hear it play through guitar rig when you first record yourself but the audio that is saved with be the clean guitar. Hope that helps.