Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Marcrease Hicks wrote:
> I am a tyro at Logic, can someone explain how to change midi tracks to audio track.  I have Superior Drummer using multi-channels, so all of the sounds of the drum kit, i.e. snare, kick, hi-hat, toms, cymbals, overhead mics, and room mics have their own track.  I am trying to achieve the highest sound quality with the smallest file size.  I researched and found that Midi instruments uses enormous amounts of RAM versus audio files.  
> Once again, can someone explain how to change midi tracks to audio tracks. 
>   

Whether a given MIDI instrument uses more or less RAM than an audio 
track depends on a lot, but in the situation you describe, I wouldn't be 
surprised.

As Steve Currington mentions, you can just bounce the tracks.  That 
permanently "prints" the audio output of the track to an audio file.  
That does work.

However, what may be easier for you for your description of what you 
want to achieve is to "Freeze" the track.  You have to turn on the 
freeze button, and for the life of me sitting here at work I can't think 
of an exact step-by-step description of how to do that, but basically 
you customize the headers and enable it -- it involves right-clicking 
somewhere just above the track headers, I believe.

Anyway, once you have the freeze button showing on your tracks (it looks 
like a little snowflake), you just click it to freeze a track.  You can 
freeze as many tracks as you want.  This is basically the same net 
result as bouncing it, except it's a bit simpler to do, and if you 
decide you want to edit it again later, you can just un-freeze it. When 
you un-freeze it, your MIDI tracks will be available just as before to edit.

If you're working in a situation with restricted resources, it's not a 
bad practice to just habitually freeze all your tracks and then 
un-freeze the one you're working on a re-freeze it after.