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Posted by ABSYNTH on Jul-29-2003 11:03:

Free that CPU

I have just found out about a product that once you have used it you will ask yourself, How the hell did i live with out it! Read on.....

Quote from the fxfreeze website.

We are glad to introduce a new DAW CPU resource management product. FX Freeze is a tool, which will help you forget about CPU, RAM or poliphony shortage problems while working with VST instruments or FX.

How often have you had to bounce tracks to free up some CPU resource for using just one more VST plug-in? And after that how often have you remove the plug-in in order to tweak some little setting in the already bounced submix?
Now you no longer need to do that. With FX Freeze you can freeze any processor heavy instrument or FX and free up some CPU power with just one mouse click, so that you can use the released horsepower for more FX or increase the effective polyphony of your studio. Now you can use your processor up to 200%, 300% or even more of its effeciency without overloading the system. Any frozen tracks can be returned to their normal state, i.e. unfrozen, with just one mouse click.

FX Freeze also allows to release the RAM resource previously used by the frozen plug-in (ultrafreeze), which is extremely important while using large complex patches of modern sampler libraries. There is also a possibility of freezing certain zones of a song. A special function of freezing only certain MIDI channels is especially convenient when working with multi-timbral virtual synth arrangements.

FX Freeze works with any VST instruments and VST FX under VST 2.0 compatible hosts.

There is a demo available for download soon & the full package should only set you back about $49

Posted by Musicmaker on Jul-29-2003 13:16:

Yes it's a geat programm. There is another programm from the same manufacter called fxteleport. It lets you run your plugins from your sequencer were you normally run them, but the programm allows you to use the cpu from another computer(s) for these plugins over the network.

It's the best programm I have seen lately.

http://www.fxteleport.com

I have heard from people that it works perfectly.

A freeze function is already included in Logic I believe.

Posted by ABSYNTH on Jul-29-2003 15:46:

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Originally posted by Musicmaker
A freeze function is already included in Logic I believe.

Apparantly the guys @ Fx were workin on it B4 Logic and are pretty pissed that they got there first!

I don't care its gonna do wonders for my set up!

Posted by rqpeyruxvg on Jul-29-2003 19:51:

Wow sounds great

tezz

Posted by Dj Thy on Jul-29-2003 20:50:

Indeed most decent sequencers already have a freeze function included, except Steinberg products, but the work is in progress.

Posted by mantisnl on Jul-29-2003 21:25:

just get a decent producing pc, thats all

Posted by Dj Thy on Jul-29-2003 23:31:

Freeze function has been used in pro studios for years. Even with bigass DSP power it's sometimes handy to free some DSP power (in most pro studio's "software" effects aren't processed by the cpu, but by DSP's). For movies for example, where it's not rare to see projects of 100 tracks and more. Even if you only put effects on half of them, you'll quickly bring the system on its knees.

This has been more true now more than ever, with the coming of host based effects and instruments. Even if you have a mighty powerful system, on a decent project it's easy to go in the red (try to use the Vienna Symphonic Library and you'll see what I mean). Before you had to do a long process of bouncing. If you had to change something, you had to revert back to when it wasn't bounced yet. Freezing is basically a temporary bounce. Suppose you have a softsynth, with a big reverb algorythm over it, plus a compressor, all software. It would already use a lot of cpu power. With a freeze function, it temporarilly bounces that track to audio (and disables the midi/softsynth/effect). Audio doesn't rely on cpu much (more on harddisk speed). If you need to change anything on that part, you unfreeze it and you get your "old" track back so you can quickly make adjustments. No need to revert to an old save, adjust and bounce again.

Posted by Musicmaker on Jul-30-2003 07:09:

Thanks for the info Dj Thy.

Posted by noikeee on Jul-30-2003 09:30:

quote:
Originally posted by mantisnl
just get a decent producing pc, thats all

hmm.. so are we supposed to pay a lot of cash for improving our pc's when a simple plugin can solve it? this plugin looks awesome. really what i need to work with fruity in a decent way.

Posted by ABSYNTH on Jul-30-2003 10:08:

quote:
Originally posted by PaRaNoIk0
hmm.. so are we supposed to pay a lot of cash for improving our pc's when a simple plugin can solve it? this plugin looks awesome. really what i need to work with fruity in a decent way.

I think i will just pay the $49

Posted by dEEkAy on Aug-01-2003 19:03:

quote:
Originally posted by ABSYNTH
I think i will just pay the $49

I will pay them too