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Optimize mixing with freeze tracks

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Optimize mixing with freeze tracks

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- [Instructor] Depending on the processing speed and power of your Mac, when you load up a project with too many plugins or software instruments, you may run out of CPU Power. In this movie, we'll learn how we can use the Freeze Tracks feature to manage this when your project is at its most processing intensive state, the mix. You can view at any time how much processing power your project is eating up to show the CPU usage in the LCD. Notice I've currently got it showing up here. It says CPU, and I've got a little meter here. Now, notice that I'm barely hitting my CPU at all. When I hit play, that might spike up a little bit more. (music playing) It goes up a teeny bit. So, I'm nowhere near the ceiling. But if I had a lot more processing going on, that value might get a little higher and it might get near the top. By the way, if you're not seeing this in your LCD, you can always show this using the Custom View. In other words, if you're seeing beats in time, you won't be seeing that.…

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