Uniwire / Cubase SX3- Can I freeze or render to audio?

[Viva Las Vegas]

I am thinking of purchasing Receptor to relieve my poor over-worked DAW. With the uniwire connection with Cubase SX3- Can I freeze or render to audio just like I would with a VST instrument on my PC? Or, do I have to record audio out of Receptor into my DAW.

Thanks!

[Hybernation]

I am thinking of purchasing Receptor to relieve my poor over-worked DAW. With the uniwire connection with Cubase SX3- Can I freeze or render to audio just like I would with a VST instrument on my PC? Or, do I have to record audio out of Receptor into my DAW.

There some good recent threads in this forum...search on "Freeze" and "Uniwire" as well.

Here's the official answer when I asked the question recently:

I do have one burning question that I didn't see explicitly answered, though: will the Uniwire VST support "fast freeze" from within Sonar and other hosts, like most other VST instruments do? I hope so!

UniWire works ONLY in real-time. Freeze or any other offline processing will not work.

There are workarounds. I don't know Sonar, but in Cubase you can either export a mix in real-time (and of course you can solo just one MIDI track), or you can record the output of each Receptor channel to an audio track. It's not as convenient as freeze, but it is pretty easy to do.

From this thread: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... ght=freeze

[Viva Las Vegas]

Bummer! Oh well, Receptor still seems cool.

[DanTimis]

You cannot freeze, but you can render to audio in real-time. Both methods are basically the same. In both cases audio is rendered, saved, and later it is played back from disk.

Freezing is a little bit more convenient. It can happen faster than real-time, and you don't have to think about managing your tracks. Rendering with UniWire works only in real-time, so it may take longer. Before you render you may need to mute or disable the tracks you do not want to render. Then, once you rendered you have to mute and disable manually the tracks you just rendered, and unmute the ones you didn't render.

On the other hand the purpose of freezing is so that you spare precious CPU cycles on your computer. UniWire and Receptor do the same, they allow you to free some of the CPU power. So depending on what you are trying to do, you might not need freezing with UniWire.

And every time you run out of CPU power, you can buy another Receptor.

[Hybernation]

One other point worth mentioning....If you have an audio card like an EMU1212M (or the other one) that has the ADAT interface, you can actually render 5 independant stereo tracks from Receptor at one time (SPDIF+ADAT1-4). I find this very convenient! So much so, that lack of Freeze is REALLY not a big deal for me like I thought it would be. I do "zero latency" direct monitoring from the card while tracking, and then when I am almost finished with a song and ready to mix down, then I do the 5-track rendering in one pass so everything is captured in audio and ready to mix.

[Viva Las Vegas]

I guess I'm just spoiled now with the 30 second "export to audio" that I'm used to now. It almost feels like I would be going backwards, technology speaking. It's still worth it, though, because my DAW cannot take any more of my heavy VSTi abuse that I keep putting it through.

[Hybernation]

It's still worth it, though, because my DAW cannot take any more of my heavy VSTi abuse that I keep putting it through.

That is EXACTLY the conclusion I came to and so I bought the Collosus/Receptor bundle. So far I'm EXTREMELY pleased. It has effectively doubled my VST power (from just a Dell Precision 370 with 3.2gHz 2GB RAM).