Advice regarding using lots of tracks...

[jv2222]

Hi,

I finaly hit track limitations and getting clipping cos the HD isnt fast enough to cope with my over use of tracks.

Anyhoo. What I really wanted to ask is what is the best way for me to temporarily bounce down to a stereo pair?

Cheers,
JV

[jv2222]

Ok. SO I just assign everything to another track and then hit record. Or use freeze track.

If I use freeze track does it mean that the other tracks used to make that track are no longer read from disk?

Cheers,
JV

[valley]

freeze works by grouping all of the frozen tracks into one temporary render.

So if you are running out of HD throughput, freezing a group (I.E. more than one) of tracks will temporarily turn them all into one single track.

[rpc9943]

ive been doing mixdowns for a band with 30 so tracks, on my ide hd... sometimes it gets naughty and hd slows down. im going to buy a nice SATA drive soon

RonC

[jv2222]

Yeah I currently have 40 tracks and am expecting to go up to about 60 or so....

[lharless]

lemme guess, you're recording an earth wind and fire comeback album?

all i have to say to that: "sonic carpet"

[j_T]

lemme guess, you're recording an earth wind and fire comeback album?

Regards,

Tommy

[IIRs]

So if you are running out of HD throughput, freezing a group (I.E. more than one) of tracks will temporarily turn them all into one single track.

There are actually 2 different ways you can achieve this: select all the tracks together and hit freeze, or route the tracks to a sub-group and freeze the group.. I do the second one usually as I tend to use a lot of sub-groups in my mixes: Its much quicker to select a single group track than to <cntrl> select mulitple source tracks, but you do need to be careful not to try to edit the originals while the group is frozen.. it will let you do it, but you won't hear the changes till you unfreeze!

[jv2222]

1) Do you think tracktion would easily be able to work with 100 tracks? (I mean in terms of display rather than disk access)

2) Is there any way to group tracks into folders like in 'some other' software...?

Cheers,
JV

[rpc9943]

wait so when you output tracks to a blank buss track you can freeze that and it will freeze all concerned?

RonC

[IIRs]

1) Do you think tracktion would easily be able to work with 100 tracks? (I mean in terms of display rather than disk access)

2) Is there any way to group tracks into folders like in 'some other' software...?

Cheers,
JV

1. Depends what you mean by easy!

2. No. Its on the FR list though I think..

[IIRs]

wait so when you output tracks to a blank buss track you can freeze that and it will freeze all concerned?

RonC

Yes.

[Todd24]

wait so when you output tracks to a blank buss track you can freeze that and it will freeze all concerned?

RonC

Yes.

Also its really usful to do things like compress or eq your group. (ahh wouldnt folders work nicley here) I find this works great for tracks with lots of backing vocals. You can make the backing vocals more or less dense, or prominant, without increasing volume by group compressing.

If we could do group freezing that went to its own group freeze file, then you could tweak your group filters, I would be very happy.

[rpc9943]

yeah i work with groups whne mixing bands, its a godo thing i use eq (i want better eq but we have to wait) and comp, sometimes i sweeten her up with some tubebooster wurr audio style u know

sometimes

RONC