Guide

Yes, freezing a track saves CPU. When I freeze a track in Ableton Live, the software renders the entire output of that track to a temporary audio file and disables every instrument and effect on it, then plays back that rendered file instead of doing real-time processing. This single action usually drops my CPU load … Read more

If you’ve ever played a guitar or sung into a microphone and heard your own voice arrive a fraction of a second late, you’ve experienced plugin latency. I ran into this problem constantly during my first year of recording, and it drove me crazy until I figured out what was actually happening inside my DAW. … Read more