Pro-Tools DSP?

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Who doesn't do "Save As...."? Anyone who doesn't is a bit slow on the
uptake.

And the disabling tracks trick was maybe useful 3 or 4 years ago, but
these days, a modern computer with the modern hardware is going to be
enough horsepower for pretty much anything.

Cheers,
Trevor de Clercq

kevindoylemusic@rogers.com wrote:
> A former assistant of mine posted this.
> For those using pro-tools
>
> Opening up huge audio files can often tap system horsepower and drain
> resources. Many users know about freeing up DSP power by turning off
> voices on unused tracks, but Brawley suggests going one step further
> and completely turning off those unused tracks to free up even more
> power.
> "Holding down the control and shift keys in the Mix window, click on
> the purple waveform at the bottom of the fader of the track you want to
> disable," continues Brawley. "This not only turns off the voice but
> also bypasses all the plug-ins on the track while still retaining each
> effect's settings. Disabling the track in this way will free up even
> more system resource power. The next screenshot shows the track on
> before doing the control-shift and waveform click, and the one after
> that is of the turned off track. Note the grayed-out indication of the
> track compared to the enabled track to the right of it."
> One of Brawley's admittedly simple Pro Tools tips is worth far more
> than its weight in gold: Using Save As often during a session instead
> of saving to the same session file name every time. Doing so provides
> two advantages he puts to great use in working with the reigning King
> of Pop.
> "I'd quite often have 20 or 30 different versions of a song saved
> along the way when working with Michael Jackson on Invincible,"
> concludes Brawley. "If MJ asked me to pull up a sound or a part from an
> earlier version, I didn't have to dig through hidden tracks or audio
> file folders. I'd simply transfer the track from the other session into
> my current session and continue. Everyone has done a vocal, drum, or
> guitar edit only to wish they'd left it the way it was, so saving a
> track as a new file name creates a copy of the file with the changes
> while leaving the old version on the drive with its original name.
> Working this way also provides a backup of your file, and we all know
> you can never have too many copies of a song. If anything gets screwy
> during an edit, rest assured you can always go back one level to the
> most recent Save As."
>