Logic Pro X - FREEZE TRACKS (10.3.2) Video Lecture | Logic Pro X: A Practical Hands-on Course - Music

hey everyone this is music tech help guy
and welcome to another Logic Pro 10
tutorial we've all seen this screen
before the system overload dialog it
says the audio engine was unable to
process all required data in time you
can try increasing the i/o buffer size
changing and changing the
multi-threading option at Logic Pro 10
preferences audio devices so this
happens when you have a session that has
a lot of plugins in it and your computer
cannot keep up with all of that
real-time processing now if you've
already changed the buffer size to make
sure that it's at its highest value and
you're processing threads is already at
its highest value or an automatic you
can see this computer does not it's only
as a tuple as a dual-core processor so
as for threads with multi-threading so
this is a pretty slow computer pretty
old it's actually an older computer it's
a little 2011 or 2010 Mac Mini there's a
workaround for this and again this
happens when you have too many plugins
for your computer's processor to keep up
with so let me just hit play and we'll
just recreate that one more time
yeah I didn't even get to hear even one
note of music because of all the plugins
that I have in this session the way we
can get around this is to freeze the
processing on our tracks to freeze our
tracks so the way you can show this is
right-click on one of your track headers
and go down to track header components
and from here go down to freeze regular
freeze and turn that on and what this
will do is it'll put this little
snowflake looking icon on not all but
some of your tracks
now what freezing your tracks does is it
essentially freezes the processing and
automation on the tracks so if you pull
this I'm just going to swipe down and
turn freeze on in all these tracks if I
were to hit play right now it's going to
take a couple minutes to sort of print
or flatten down all of the tracks into
an offline audio file that's what it
does no matter what number of plugins
you have on a track if even if you have
a ton of plugins on the track what it's
going to do is it's going to flatten and
free
is down all of these plugins down to an
audiophile so that the computer no
longer has to process all of these
plugins in real time therefore freeing
up some processing power for your
computer and then therefore avoiding
that system overload dialog so you'll
also notice that some of these tracks
have a green freeze icon and others have
a blue freeze icon the ones that are in
green if you click on a track and go up
to the track inspector window here
you'll see that there's a freeze mode
and there's actually two options there's
source only in pre-fader source only
freezes the source but does not freeze
the effects plugins and the automation
so typically you want pre fader to be on
for all of these the reason why some of
them are on source only and sometimes
what it'll do is it'll like if you have
a track with no effects on it like my
first Tom here it'll automatically
choose source only for us because
there's no point in having a pre fader
freeze on a track that has no effects on
it so things like my kick drum here
where I do have effects I'm going to
change this to pre fader my overheads I
had you have effects on the track on the
tracks I'm going to choose free pre
fader as well and all these other ones
are pre fader as well just the Tom's
don't have any effects on the track so
there's no point in doing a pre fader
freeze on those so I'm going to hit
spacebar and what you can see is that
it's freezing all the track's it'll take
a little while but once you freeze all
these tracks once you'll never have to
do it again so while this is freezing
let me just explain a few things you'll
notice that aux tracks like my guitar
aux and my drum buss here do not have a
freeze button aux tracks cannot be
frozen they have to like because you're
essentially summing together multiple
channels or sending channels over to
those aux tracks they have to be played
in real time so therefore any effects on
those aux tracks are still going to be
played in real time and multi output
instruments cannot be frozen either so
you have to just sort of deal with that
also keep in mind if you're just trying
to freeze a couple tracks as opposed to
all the tracks in the session this
freezing process won't take nearly as
long so I'll be right back once this is
all done and we'll play the session all
right now that we've got all of our
tracks frozen let's see if we can play
back the track without any issues
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Applause]
let's jump up to the chorus or there's a
lot more going on
[Music]
beautiful
[Music]
it looks like we're all good now keep in
mind that once you freeze a track you'll
no longer be able to edit any plugins or
play with any automation on the track
although you can still adjust the volume
on the source only freeze mode tracks
you can add additional plugins and you
can also edit those plugins as well but
that's only on the source only freeze
tracks if you've got it on pre fader you
won't be able to edit any of the plugins
so what you'd have to do is unfreeze the
track edit the plug-in the way you want
it to be edited and then refreeze the
track all right so that's what freezing
tracks can do for you it can alleviate
the issues of that system overload
dialog popping up over and over and over
again because your computer's processor
can't keep up with all the plug-in
processing so as always I hope you guys
enjoyed this video as a little bonus at
the end of this video here I'm going to
play this entire track basically what
this is is it's a song from my old band
right stripped that was a band I formed
with a buddy of mine from high school
way back in 2003 this song we recorded
on pretty much a shoot a shoestring
budget in the drummer's house and
instead of like the normal treatment I
would give drums or I'd have you know
top and bottom snare in and out kick
overhead mics room mics you know I'd end
up normally I'd end up having twelve or
fourteen channels of drums we did this
with literally five close mics one on
the kick one of the snare and three for
the Tom's and then a stereo pair of
cheap overhead mics so basically seven
channels four drums I've had to go back
and do some fancy drum replacement use
some really verb use on aux tracks to
simulate room mics Irie amped the
guitars because they are all done just
di through the you know the logic amps
way back when we recorded this ivory
amps all these two the Kemper reamped
all the the bass or I think at least
added some different processing for the
bass retune the vocals and we just
overall retooled a lot of things on this
so this is a real
master of a song that we recorded 10
years ago and wrote 10 years ago
although the album version didn't come
out until 2010 which was seven years ago
we actually wrote and recorded this ten
years ago so this is a very old well
it's not that old but it's for me it's
an older recording that I've always
wanted to go back and retool and
remaster so anyway here is silence the
hatred from write stripped
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
you
[Music]
is reality
oh we're tails industry
[Music]
because we can't even breathe
we laugh
where the
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[Music]
hahahaha
not
destroy
[Music]
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take whatever you can in here of nothing
[Music]
ha
-
from the chaos is daringness world
[Music]
ha
man over there
Jonica
destroy
[Music]
and
[Music]
you