Crackling & Popping-Freeze?

[Jimolson]

Can someone please explain what freezing a track does, where it goes, and possible applications?
I am getting crackles & pops with several midi tracks running. Helps a lot when I convert midi tracks to audio, but would like to save my midi tracks within each project. Does freezing have any better results than muting midi tracks? Thanks

[GovernmentMule]

Freezing a track is just like "mixing to a new audio track" except it does not create a new audio track. It just saves the new audio file somewhere in the project file. It also disables the virtual instrument and effects on that track.

How good is your computer? What is the specs?

You could go into your sound device preferences and set your buffer sample higher to see if that helps the playback.

[Jimolson]

Thanks Gov,
Plenty of horsepower on the computer, large SSD and Hard drive.
Converted all my midi tracks to audio and now would like to freeze the midi tracks. I want access to them for future edits, but just want to clean up the mixer channels. Where do the midi tracks get hidden & how do I retrieve them if I want them back?
Thanks again

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

The MIDI info is stored in the project, but is temporarily hidden when you freeze a MIDI track (Ctrl+F). Un-freezing it (also Ctrl+F) reveals the MIDI data and removes the frozen track file from your project folder.

Greg

[Jimolson]

Thanks Greg,
The crackling & popping goes away after deleting temp files.
I do that often now

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Not sure how that would affect this problem. Some of the temp files (.mpk files) store waveform peak information about audio clips so that the audio clips will load faster after the first time. So, if you notice that it's taking a long time to load a project with lots of audio files, then it might be because you deleted the temp files. It certainly doesn't hurt anything, but just be aware of that.


Greg