Help Please struggling with asio time usage

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guys and girls i have a project that is 50 tracks big.

36 audio tracks
6 fx channels
7 groups
with one track to mix down to.

my asio time usage is basically in the red all time or very high.

my sample buffer size is as large as it can go and i have frozen all my drum tracks. (with very little difference)

i am using group channels as i have a lot of guitar track from the same guitar with different parts but over lap each so they go to one place and i place plugins on the group channel instead of the individual tracks saves a lot of cpu.

has anyone got any suggestions to help free time usage?

is it possible to bounce audio tracks down with the plugins so i can remove plugins?

help :(
 
Thats what i'd do.
Solo the track make a mix down of it save to location (New file called stems for example)and next please.
Making adjustments might be a pain after just save you original incase you need to correct stuff later.
There might be a more time efficient or better way of doing it i'm sure someone else will chime in soon.
 
ok cool this sounds like the best way of doing it. is it possible to bounce a track with the plugins. as in bounce selection but run it through the plugs so i can remove the plugs? with export and import?
 
Br3n said:
ok cool this sounds like the best way of doing it. is it possible to bounce a track with the plugins. as in bounce selection but run it through the plugs so i can remove the plugs? with export and import?
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Right, that's exactly what you need to do.

For example, if you have an EQ on a group track with your multiple guitars going into that group like you explained, your EQ is effecing ALL of those guitars routed to the group. Leave the EQ enabled, solo the first guitar track and Export Audio Mixdown to a new location like "Exported Guitars" or what ever you like. Then, go to that location and drap and drop the track back in. Re-route it to the group.

After you've done that will all the guitar tracks one at a time, remove the EQ and that's that.
This will work for ANY effects all the time ie. EQ, Compression, amp sims, you name it.

Also, after you've added them back, you no longer need the original guitars tracks. It would be wise to Save As a new file before doing this called something like "Song before exporting guitars with EQ" or what have you.
 
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Why have you just frozen the drum tracks? Are they the only ones with lots of processing? I would freeze any and all tracks that have processing and whose sound you are happy with overall. Start with the ones with the most plugins.

Freezing is the equivalent of bouncing down. Without the freedom to move and edit the resulting file, of course.

Cheers :)
 
i have frozen the drum tracks as those are ones i am happy with. they fit perfectly with the bass so i have frozen them to save a little cpu they dont have much in terms of plugins but they where chopped up a lot to put them in time! so there is a lot of disk usage. i bounced them down shortly after i found the bounce selection feature was found
 
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