Billy's Little Trip wrote:So, this is the direction I should go? I've finally gotten comfortable with Cubase. I know I don't make professional quality mixes, but I think that's just a lack of knowledge and experience as opposed to my DAW, right? But I will say that I am feeling the limitations of my computer. It's easily overloaded and freezes as I start building too many tracks and plugins. Really kills the mood to have to restart the computer when I'm in a zone.
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Also, remember that you can always freeze tracks to get back some CPU (I think in Cubase you do it by bouncing down a group of tracks to a new track and then disabling the original tracks; in Logic you just click the little snowflake).
Cubase ripped that feature off, and so now you just click the little snowflake in Cubase as well. I played around with that recently, and it's cool, though on my old Mac is wasn't really instantaneous or anything. I had to wait a bit for it to render my track, with all the plugins, etc.
Right, I just meant that it wasn't necessarily something that completely made the pain of not having enough CPU go away. I guess it's a feature I'd rather not use if I didn't have to.
Oh, on Cubase, does it actually do the freeze immediately? In Logic it doesn't do the freeze until the next time you play the track, so it doesn't make you wait for a few minutes if you accidentally clicked the wrong one (and so you can freeze multiple ones in parallel and whatever).
I mean, not that Logic's behavior completely negates the pain either, though. It's mostly there so that if you have tracks which you know aren't going to change and you're low on CPU you can squeeze a few extra tracks out of your system.
Also, I don't know if Logic supports additional DSP cards anymore. Logic's preferred method of adding process capacity is by buying another Mac (such as a Mini, or using the MacBook you already have, or whatever) and installing Logic Node on it. Someday I will mess around with that to see if it's actually useful.
I haven't really played with the freeze or pool much. I've been simply (I say simply because it's how my mechanical brain works) exporting a track with all of my plugins, EQing, etc, then either starting a new project labeled "mix tracks" or just bringing it back to my project in process and laying it on top of my original track, then turning off the plugins, etc, on that track.
I know, Spud. Just yesterday I walked in and caught my computer bumpin' ugleez with some stray snowflake from up the street. I had to hit'm with a joy stick to get them apart.
.....that's all I need is a bunch of little frozen computers running around. Oh, don't get me wrong, they're cute when they're little, but then they start melting all over the damn house. The nice thing is, it's easy to tell them apart, because no two are the same.
