Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Hey Guys,

     If you have cause to take your logic mix into another DAW with all your effects, 
automation moves, etc. all you have to do is freeze all the tracks.   Then all the tracks are 
available as AIFF files in the Logic/(Project Folder)/Freeze Files folder!   

      To freeze in Logic 8:

      In the arrange window right click(or control click) near any instrument/track icon or 
track name.  It will pull up a window with two options, select the "Configure Track Header" 
option, then in the pop up window check the "freeze" box.  Then in all of your tracks you 
can select "freeze" on all the files you wish to individually "bounce" with the effects and 
automation printed on them.

      Make sure to drag your song end locator to the proper "end" of the song.  Otherwise 
your freeze files will have needless silence recorded on them.

       This has helped me when I need to play projects in Pro Tools at school.  

        I hope this might be helpful to some of you,

              Pete

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, "pete_buchwald" <pete_buchwald@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
> 
>      If you have cause to take your logic mix into another DAW with all your effects, 
> automation moves, etc. all you have to do is freeze all the tracks.   Then all the tracks 
are 
> available as AIFF files in the Logic/(Project Folder)/Freeze Files folder!

Don't wanna be a parade rainer, but... :)

I can't speak for the freeze function in Logic 8, but where Logic 7 was concerned, freeze 
was sometimes imperfect in its, uh, freezing. That is, you might play back the frozen track 
and find an effect didn't print or behave exactly as it would have if you'd bounced it in real 
time.

Basically I'm still happy to freeze in LP7 on not-too-complicated but CPU-intensive tracks 
in order to be able to play heavier songs in real time on my G5, but I guess I haven't been 
confident to use freeze 'blind' (deaf?) - that is, without checking the output. As someone 
in the main Logic Group said, having a non-realtime bounce function that you have to 
check afterwards, defeats the purpose of it being non-realtime.

So this is just a caveat for use of your tip where Logic 7 is concerned. But I haven't heard 
how freeze / non-realtime bounces are going in LP8. Positively, we could put it this way - 
I haven't seen anyone complain about them not working in 8 yet.

- Wade