hey guys this time on Tim talks audio studio ones transform to audio and
bouncing MIDI today we're gonna look at some ways to free up some CPU power by
addressing instrument channels if you have a larger session with lots of
virtual instruments you may notice your CPU working a bit harder than you'd like
and you may even experience issues with playback step one would be to check out
your device block size and if you don't know how to do that just take a look at
this video and it will explain everything if you have already addressed your
device block size and are still seeing your CPU working hard then we can take a
look at rendering some of your instrument tracks the first way is to
bounce your instrument part bouncing will write a new audio event and auto
populate an audio channel with that new bounced file it will also auto mute the
MIDI event so you don't get a double trigger of the instrument part as well
as the new audio track you can do this by right clicking in the event region
and choosing bounce selection or use the keyboard shortcut of command or control
B there is one downside to this though even though your new audio track is
exactly what the instrument would have played and how it would have sound this
still leaves the instrument track active as you can see here you certainly could
then go ahead and remove that instrument yourself and free up the processing
power or just turn the instrument off or into bypass I'm going to quickly undo my
bounce and show you transform to audio transform to audio track is another way
to free up some CPU power this is a non-destructive rendering of your
instrument part to an audiophile again there's a couple ways to do this you
could right-click on the track in the main Edit window and select transform to
audio track or make yourself a keyboard shortcut in my case ctrl T
when you do this you'll get this dialog box in here you can choose to also
render any inserts that you have on your instruments you can preserve the
instrument track which is great if you want to modify a part again after you've
rendered it and you can remove the instrument removing the instruments and
rendering the inserts is the combination you'll want to free up some of that CPU
power this last option is for tails you would adjust these settings if you had a
reverb on your track as well and wanted to ensure that the tail of the reverb
got rendered into the track as well you can select auto tail and it will
auto-populate a max length of 30 seconds or you can adjust your own fixed tail by
clicking and dragging or just double clicking and inserting an amount of time
I'm gonna put this back down to zero and show you what happens when we transform
this to an audio part there now we have a brand-new audio part which still shows
the information of the MIDI but it's gone ahead and removed the instrument
and put my insert in the rendered audio file and remove the insert from the
track I can go back and adjust the part or the settings in my insert by
transforming it back to an instrument part and it's a very similar process you
can right click on the track and transform to instrument track or using a
keyboard shortcut ctrl shift T now it's exactly the way it was before I did my
render there's some extra good news this also works on audio channels I have here
a hidden guitar di part with an instance of ampère I can do a similar action and
transform this to a rendered audio file and back again with my shortcuts you can
right click and select transform to rendered audio or option B for me
gives me this dialog box with very similar settings if I've done my render
and need to adjust something I can easily go back by transforming back to
real-time audio or in my case control B because this is an audio track and not
an instrument track it is technically a different function therefore having
different shortcuts but it will do the same thing in the end and it will free
up some CPU power that's all for now if you found anything in this video
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