FREEZE 'BUS TRACK'??

Any way to freeze a 'Buss track'?

If not this would be an awesome feature for CPU usage!

Being able to freeze busses would be a godsend for me, with my underpowered computer. The heaviest plugins tend to be on busses. 

Other DAWs can do it, because they make no distinction between tracks and busses. Putting that feature into SONAR would probably require some pretty substantial changes to the basic architecture. (Followed by the inevitable rash of bugs that follows a major under-the-hood change. Worse, they might end up X1-ifying busses and actually make them less flexible.) 

You can kludge the equivalent to a frozen bus by bouncing to an intermediary track. It's not nearly as convenient, but if you've hit a roadblock because your computer has just run out of steam on a large project, it may be the only option.

But how do other DAWs do it? Do they simply freeze the source tracks of the bus, and if so, wouldn't the batch freeze function do practically the same? Creating one new audio track and shutting of the bus FX doesn't sound like a lot CPU cycles saved.

Hey OP, not sure if you are still trying to figure this out... But what I do is add a send in the bus to an AUX track, record the playback and freeze it, then mute the bus and FX bin. The AUX track would have exactly recorded what you played through, and now you won't be eating up processing power during tracking or mixing or whatever the problem is. Hope this helps!

There was no such thing as an Aux track when this thread was created 

Why is it, new members always answer 5 year old threads ?
I think I did the same thing when I first joined.