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make cubase use less cpu for audio
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| Dirty Ice |
| I want to finish my song. I am using 100% of my cpu though. Are there any tips on making cubase use less cpu so that I can get a good recording. When I turn my fx off, everything is back to normal...but i need those fx! So what do I do? |
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| Dj Thy |
Save your session under a different name (so you are sure you still have a good copy to revert to).
Bounce the tracks you are pretty certain that they are final to audio (either make it one stereo file for several tracks, or bounce each track you want to free apart, if you applied stereo effects, bounce to stereo). That way you'll get an audio file "with the effects integrated". Pure audiofiles don't strain the cpu that much (they put more strain on the harddisks, but a decent harddisk can take enough audio tracks).
The problem with this method is that if you see you need to change something to a track you already bounced (one of the effects is too pronounced for example), you need to revert to the "unbounced" version of your session. That's why I told you to save that session (another way of achieving a similar result is to keep the tracks you bounced, but disable everything on them (effects and soft instruments), that way if you wanna change something, you reactivate them and make the tweaks).
It's a bit of work, so some programmers thought of a feature called freeze, that can make temporary bounces to free up cpu. If you need to change something, you can unfreeze those tracks again. Problem is, Freeze is only a feature since Nuendo 2.1/Cubase SX 2, and it's not nearly as versatile as the Logic or Samplitude freeze feature.
If this all seems too much work for ya, there is a third party freeze plugin that's called FX Freeze that can do that freezing job pretty well. |
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| Dirty Ice |
| great advise thanks. I will let you hear the song when I'm done. |
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| Design |
| Get an audio card that's going to handle audio separately from your computer's cpu. That way the cpu will be free for effects, compression, equlization etc... |
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| No Left Turn |
| by not having that great of a computer, we run into this problem ALL THE TIME in the studio. to sort of get around it, you can mute a bunch of different parts and just solo the key parts so you're not running so many instruments. or... you can render however many bars all your effects are in so you end up with a 20 or so second clip, and listen and see what you need to modify. it's a bit tedious of a process, but it gets the job done when your computer is crap. |
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