Freeze tracks and CPU

[jhajewski]

Hey there all.   Just wondering about freeze tracks. Why can’t they freeze to mono? I don’t see that option. It turns my mono tracks to stereo... is it because the end product / master is stereo?

Also, the longer it takes the mix down when freezing - is that an indication of how much CPU the track was taking up? 

Lastly, can you leave tracks frozen and mix/export to the final stereo mix?

Cheers!

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

21 hours ago, jhajewski said:

Hey there all.   Just wondering about freeze tracks. Why can’t they freeze to mono? I don’t see that option. It turns my mono tracks to stereo... is it because the end product / master is stereo?

Not quite. How tracks bounce or freeze is controlled by the interleave button:

21 hours ago, jhajewski said:

Also, the longer it takes the mix down when freezing - is that an indication of how much CPU the track was taking up?

Yes. The time it takes is tied to how much processing the track has to do and also how long the track is and if it has to generate a tail for reverbs and so on, which you configure on the freeze settings.

21 hours ago, jhajewski said:

Lastly, can you leave tracks frozen and mix/export to the final stereo mix?

Of course. The only thing freezing a track does is bouncing the track with effects and ProChannel settings it had and disables both.