Bouncing tracks

[Xrod]

Greetings!

Perhaps this question would be better located in the Logic discussion, but I would think that other DAW's have a similar function to Logic's Flex editing. I hope I can make myself clear on this...

I have several tracks utilizing Flex for quantization and pitch correction. In addition to the extra demands put on my computer processing power, I am limited on certain editing features while Flex is engaged, such as being able to create fades for example.

The same seems to apply to any automation that I may have used on individual tracks.

I know that bouncing these tracks will allow these tracks to be "rendered", thus allowing further edits and additional processing with plug-ins, but of course you are then stuck with what you get...

So, how do you handle this in your workflow?

Do you;

1. Make a copy of the track and bounce that one leaving the original untouched and perhaps hide it from view.

2. Bounce only a "dry" track and add all plug-ins to the bounced track only.

3. Only bounce tracks when you get to the mixing stage.

Hope that makes sense!

 

[mjbphotos]

Haven't 'bounced' since moving to computer DAW from a stand-alone recorder. Doesn't Logic allow you to stem render each track? (Reaper does). You stem render the CPU-intensive tracks, then you still have your original tracks available (muted with all plug-ins disabled) in case you need to go back and change anything.

 

[Pinky]

Haven't 'bounced' since moving to computer DAW from a stand-alone recorder. Doesn't Logic allow you to stem render each track? (Reaper does). You stem render the CPU-intensive tracks, then you still have your original tracks available (muted with all plug-ins disabled) in case you need to go back and change anything.

In Sonar this is called "Freezing" a track, but yeah this would be the way to go. It basically makes a bounced downmix in place, which can be easily unfrozen for further modification, but while frozen doesn't use any cpu / system resources. It's become the trick to getting many layers of VST on a single track and still be able to work with other equally complex and layered tracks without latency (increased live tracking delays, dropouts) becoming an issue.

 

[RAMI]

I've never had to do this, so I'm sure the other guys got you covered above. But if worse came to worse, can you not just save the project pre-changes under one name, then make your changes and save that project under a different name. I'm sure there are other (easier) ways, but I'm sure this would work.

 

[JMac52]

In Sonar this is called "Freezing" a track, but yeah this would be the way to go. It basically makes a bounced downmix in place, which can be easily unfrozen for further modification, but while frozen doesn't use any cpu / system resources.

Logic has Freeze Track functionality also.

J

 

[Xrod]

Thanks guys, I found a YouTube video on how to freeze tracks in Logic. Thats exactly what I was looking for.