Hi everybody... First of all I apologize for my questions that might amuse many of you, but it would be possible to somehow freeze a plug-in as we do with a synth? For example freeze a series of heavy waves abbey road reverbs to work without listening unexpected digital latches. Any suggestions to that effect? I'm dreaming? Thanks in advance....

I use the synth rack and freeze from there.

Soft synths are plug-ins too. Plug-ins be they synths or effects may be frozen in a track. If the effects are on a bus, either move them to an aux track, which has a freeze option, or bounce the bus and delete the plug-ins.

scook
Soft synths are plug-ins too. Plug-ins be they synths or effects may be frozen in a track. If the effects are on a bus, either move them to an aux track, which has a freeze option, or bounce the bus and delete the plug-ins.

 


ok, I've created an Aux Track, but it seems that the freeze option does not work..... I simply put the vst effect into the vst rack box and then push the freeze button but nothing happened.... What did I do wrong?

An aux track works just like any other audio track, the difference is the input source. An aux track uses one or more other tracks as input. There must be data in the track to freeze. Record the track then freeze it.

scook
An aux track works just like any other audio track, the difference is the input source. An aux track uses one or more other tracks as input. There must be data in the track to freeze. Record the track then freeze it.

obviusly then I must deactivate the sends to the aux track, right? :-) thanks a lot!!!

Could just turn off input echo on the aux track.

You don't need an aux track if you want to freeze a synth. When you loaded the synth via the synth rack a dialog box should have appeared for you to set what you want including an audio track. If you have an audio assigned to the synth output then all you need to do is freeze the synth. If you don't and I can't imagine why you would't you couldn't hear it unless it was outing to a buss. 

Maybe the audio source is not a synth. It is true if there is only one audio/instrument track routed to the bus, there would be no need for the bus or aux track as long as the FX plug-in(s) have a wet/dry mix. The plug-in(s) could be placed in the audio/instrument track and then freeze the track.

Another option is to bounce the processor's wet signal to an audio track, which opens up additional possibilities (e.g., gating with sidechain). You can then delete the effect after saving the preset - just in case.