As Andy said, when you're mainly doing it for the purpose of performance, freezing tracks is a much better idea than rendering. Firstly, you don't then have two tracks to manage the original and the rendered. Secondly, sometimes plugins can take resources even when muted (or disabled), but freezing effectively offlines the plugins, so they are guaranteed to use no resources.
I have an early 2008 I Mac so the freeze track feature has been a game-changer for me freeze tracks to save on cpu. New Sub here! Would like to see some mastering tutorials also maybe how you would gain stage a trap beat or track prior to mastering. Great videos!
Subprojects take a little getting used to, and they’re still a little clunky, but I find them to be superior to rendering. It’s nice to not have all that clutter in the main project. Anyway, good summary video. Gotta go try out the buffer sizes.
The other thing you can do is make an FX bus and utilize sends so that you are only using the CPU of the FX on that one track - that will also free up a ton of CPU.
Point 1. If you are going to play music and keep talking. You need to turn the music down a lot more... You can't hear what you are saying. Point 2. Freezing tracks renders vst effects an instruments to audio and saves CPU, with the advantage that you can unfreeze them if you decide to change anything in an effect or vst instrument. You can even freeze some effects and not others on a track. ua-cam.com/video/BjsZWUpXHRA/v-deo.html I am getting the impression that you are quite new to Reaper and you are starting to teach how to use it when you don't really understand how it works properly? I suggest you watch some Kenny Gioa videos before teaching others. The fact that you responded to a comment on creating an effects buss, as if it was a surprise to you, furthered the impression, you are new to this. That's standard procedure with reverb and delays. You put one reverb on a track and send other tracks to it in different amounts. Maybe I'm wrong but you are giving me the impression you are trying to run before you can walk...
@@AndyCampbellMusic Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree about the music being too loud while Jack is talking. That is something that we will look to improve on moving forward. We are new to UA-cam, so there are bound to be some teething problems. The methods used in this video are some of what Jack uses to improve his CPU usage. He did intend to mention freezing tracks while he demonstrated rendering FX to tracks. I guess you can't always cover absolutely everything, but your comments are definitely taken on board. Regarding the comment saying "good shout." That was simply me (HMM admin) acknowledging a good comment from a viewer. Anyway, hope that helps clear your points up. Thanks for watching. 👊
I don't have Kontakt but I saw in a video that you can take out the unused samples from the performance to free up memory, ie the samples for unused notes, I'm no expert but I think you get what I mean....
I'm planning to buy Tascam us-16x08, it have 16 inputs, and 8 outputs. Wanna set up REAPER on laptop Lenovo IdeaPad Y570 (quad-core 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU, 6 GB of RAM), to use each output as custom monitor mix for each musician for playing live. To reduce CPU usage, two guitarists will be using two guitar processors. Drum player will have drums VST plugin on his input. So here is the question: how much load does the routing of tracks give? According to the video, the FX effects load the system to the maximum, so I'm trying to understand, how much routing in REAPER will affect system. Maybe someone had this expirience, thanks in advance for reply
Hey there, I don’t have a ton of experience using REAPER this way, but it should be totally feasible. Using plugins/FX will eat up your processing power real quick (especially since you only have 6GB RAM), but if you are just planning on using REAPER for routing a mix for each musician, it shouldn't be too processing power/RAM intensive. Compared to other DAWs, REAPER is not too demanding on your computer so as long as you aren't going crazy with plugins/FX, I think you should be fine! Hope this helps, cheers!
Nice video and well explained. My issue with increasing the buffer size for playback is that I forget it. Then I wonder why I have issues on another project when recording with a 1024 buffer! Lol. But does muting a track with effects really drop the processing load of those effects?
Try increasing the block/buffer size. It usually helps with playback issues like that. Or maybe you need to hunt down a badly behaving plugin/fx in your project. The performance meter can help you see on what track the issue is.
@@JanSandahl it’s not even during play back . It will happen at times on my laptop during recording . It’s a lot to do with “free” VST . I’ve got it to work better on my laptop after wiping it clear . I feel reaper works best with my desktop tho on an older version offline where I don’t use anything but an Equalizer and a noise gate. All these free amp sims and blah blah they are trash . I though it was a neat way to check things out but it’s just a way to fill you pc full of unwanted ” fluff” lol fluffy junk . Amped roots damn mere killed my pc and I’ll never install another amp simulator again. I use direct recording from my amp into my Daw now to hell with amp sims and IR loaders . Buy a real amp and real pedals save yourself the headache
@@ronswary Yeah, recording benefits from small buffer sizes to get less latency, but then the cracks and pops may come up. Digital audio needs a decent machine. Try Melda's free bundle. Superb audio quality with low cpu impact. I think there's an IR loader in there as well. I've done a lot of synth stuff in recent years, but am picking up the guitar again and thoroughly enjoying MTurboAmp and MCabinet. Maybe you could track guitar and split the signal before the audio interface, so that one signal goes to your real amp, and then later tweak the recorded clean guitar signal with IRs/FXs? I don't have a good amp myself, but it's a thought, as latency is a true joy killer for guitar.
@@JanSandahl I have a Peavey Vypr , it’s decent ..that’s ran into my Daw via USB. My pedal chain is Wah- Tube screamer- Nux plexi crunch- noise gate - looper - into my Peavey Vypr. Amps on clean channel with slight reverb . Nothing set extreme( none of that turn it all up nonsense) it’s a Great tone. I use reaper for a more refined IR sound and some EQ and compression so my pinches don’t make neighbors dog bark lol . I’m not using an an interface just direct from my modulation amp I have zero latency issues every .
As Andy said, when you're mainly doing it for the purpose of performance, freezing tracks is a much better idea than rendering. Firstly, you don't then have two tracks to manage the original and the rendered. Secondly, sometimes plugins can take resources even when muted (or disabled), but freezing effectively offlines the plugins, so they are guaranteed to use no resources.
I have an early 2008 I Mac so the freeze track feature has been a game-changer for me freeze tracks to save on cpu. New Sub here! Would like to see some mastering tutorials also maybe how you would gain stage a trap beat or track prior to mastering. Great videos!
Cheers, really appreciate that, and nice one for the video suggestions, good ideas!
Subprojects take a little getting used to, and they’re still a little clunky, but I find them to be superior to rendering. It’s nice to not have all that clutter in the main project. Anyway, good summary video. Gotta go try out the buffer sizes.
Thanks Mike
The other thing you can do is make an FX bus and utilize sends so that you are only using the CPU of the FX on that one track - that will also free up a ton of CPU.
Great shout 👊
Point 1. If you are going to play music and keep talking. You need to turn the music down a lot more... You can't hear what you are saying.
Point 2. Freezing tracks renders vst effects an instruments to audio and saves CPU, with the advantage that you can unfreeze them if you decide to change anything in an effect or vst instrument. You can even freeze some effects and not others on a track.
ua-cam.com/video/BjsZWUpXHRA/v-deo.html
I am getting the impression that you are quite new to Reaper and you are starting to teach how to use it when you don't really understand how it works properly?
I suggest you watch some Kenny Gioa videos before teaching others.
The fact that you responded to a comment on creating an effects buss, as if it was a surprise to you, furthered the impression, you are new to this. That's standard procedure with reverb and delays. You put one reverb on a track and send other tracks to it in different amounts.
Maybe I'm wrong but you are giving me the impression you are trying to run before you can walk...
@@AndyCampbellMusic Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree about the music being too loud while Jack is talking. That is something that we will look to improve on moving forward. We are new to UA-cam, so there are bound to be some teething problems.
The methods used in this video are some of what Jack uses to improve his CPU usage. He did intend to mention freezing tracks while he demonstrated rendering FX to tracks. I guess you can't always cover absolutely everything, but your comments are definitely taken on board.
Regarding the comment saying "good shout." That was simply me (HMM admin) acknowledging a good comment from a viewer.
Anyway, hope that helps clear your points up.
Thanks for watching. 👊
It's work! Thank you !❤
Excellent. I'm glad it helped.
I don't have Kontakt but I saw in a video that you can take out the unused samples from the performance to free up memory, ie the samples for unused notes, I'm no expert but I think you get what I mean....
Awesome Tutorial!
Thanks man, really appriciate that!
Buffer/Block size affects latency not sound quality.
You will hear static and jerky audio if you set the buffer lower than your system can handle.
@@B3Band Yeah, but a high buffer doesnt make i sound worse which the video seemed to give an indication of.
thanks for the video , what is the PDC?
Why would the subtrack method work?
Muted tracks are supposed to not take up CPU, so isn't it just the same as muting the tracks?
Thanks brother nice video ...... Very helpful.... I use subproject option it's very helpful for me ..... 😊
Cheers man!
I'm planning to buy Tascam us-16x08, it have 16 inputs, and 8 outputs. Wanna set up REAPER on laptop Lenovo IdeaPad Y570 (quad-core 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU, 6 GB of RAM), to use each output as custom monitor mix for each musician for playing live. To reduce CPU usage, two guitarists will be using two guitar processors. Drum player will have drums VST plugin on his input. So here is the question: how much load does the routing of tracks give? According to the video, the FX effects load the system to the maximum, so I'm trying to understand, how much routing in REAPER will affect system. Maybe someone had this expirience, thanks in advance for reply
Hey there, I don’t have a ton of experience using REAPER this way, but it should be totally feasible. Using plugins/FX will eat up your processing power real quick (especially since you only have 6GB RAM), but if you are just planning on using REAPER for routing a mix for each musician, it shouldn't be too processing power/RAM intensive. Compared to other DAWs, REAPER is not too demanding on your computer so as long as you aren't going crazy with plugins/FX, I think you should be fine! Hope this helps, cheers!
Wow, people are still freezing tracks in 2022? I remember doing that in like 2008 to record guitars!
sadly,that didn't worked for me.
Nice video and well explained. My issue with increasing the buffer size for playback is that I forget it. Then I wonder why I have issues on another project when recording with a 1024 buffer! Lol. But does muting a track with effects really drop the processing load of those effects?
no. you have to turn off effects on that track I believe.
I’ve got one track and it’ll pop and crack , slow whenever it wants why
Try increasing the block/buffer size. It usually helps with playback issues like that. Or maybe you need to hunt down a badly behaving plugin/fx in your project. The performance meter can help you see on what track the issue is.
@@JanSandahl it’s not even during play back . It will happen at times on my laptop during recording . It’s a lot to do with “free” VST . I’ve got it to work better on my laptop after wiping it clear . I feel reaper works best with my desktop tho on an older version offline where I don’t use anything but an Equalizer and a noise gate. All these free amp sims and blah blah they are trash . I though it was a neat way to check things out but it’s just a way to fill you pc full of unwanted ” fluff” lol fluffy junk . Amped roots damn mere killed my pc and I’ll never install another amp simulator again.
I use direct recording from my amp into my Daw now to hell with amp sims and IR loaders . Buy a real amp and real pedals save yourself the headache
@@ronswary Yeah, recording benefits from small buffer sizes to get less latency, but then the cracks and pops may come up. Digital audio needs a decent machine.
Try Melda's free bundle. Superb audio quality with low cpu impact. I think there's an IR loader in there as well. I've done a lot of synth stuff in recent years, but am picking up the guitar again and thoroughly enjoying MTurboAmp and MCabinet.
Maybe you could track guitar and split the signal before the audio interface, so that one signal goes to your real amp, and then later tweak the recorded clean guitar signal with IRs/FXs?
I don't have a good amp myself, but it's a thought, as latency is a true joy killer for guitar.
@@JanSandahl I have a Peavey Vypr , it’s decent ..that’s ran into my Daw via USB. My pedal chain is Wah- Tube screamer- Nux plexi crunch- noise gate - looper - into my Peavey Vypr.
Amps on clean channel with slight reverb . Nothing set extreme( none of that turn it all up nonsense) it’s a Great tone. I use reaper for a more refined IR sound and some EQ and compression so my pinches don’t make neighbors dog bark lol .
I’m not using an an interface just direct from my modulation amp I have zero latency issues every .
Try watching the video. And stop acting like you're helpless.
Neat
Cheers Samy