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Frozen instrument tracks display both the MIDI data and the audio waveform, though neither is editable.
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With frozen instrument tracks, Pro Tools will display both the audio waveform and the MIDI notes in a semi-transparent state, but neither can be edited while the track is frozen Instrument tracks can be frozen in all the same ways as audio and aux tracks.
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As with frozen audio tracks, frozen aux tracks cannot be edited, but you can adjust volume and pan.Įxternal hardware inserts cannot be frozen using the Freeze feature: the option shows itself as available on the track, but as Freeze uses an offline bounce process, it simply freezes silence, because Pro Tools cannot process audio through external hardware faster than in real time! If you want to print the sound of the external hardware you’ll need to use Bounce in real time. Most of the time, aux tracks don’t display a waveform, but when you freeze an aux track you will see a ‘frozen’ waveform with the angled pattern overlay. To un-freeze a partially frozen track, right-click on the frozen insert and select Unfreeze, or just click on the track’s snowflake icon.Īuxiliary input tracks can be frozen as well, using all the same commands that you would use for an audio track. You can tell if an insert is frozen, as its name will be greyed-out and the snowflake button will appear by the insert name. The track will then be rendered up to and including that insert, with plug-ins in inserts after it being left accessible and editable. To do this, right-click on the last insert you want to be frozen and select Freeze Up To This Insert in the drop-down menu. You can select multiple tracks and freeze them in one go, and if you have a group selection made, Track Freeze will be applied to all tracks in the group.Īs with Track Commit, it’s possible to freeze only part of a plug-in chain.Īs with Track Commit, you can choose to freeze a track up to a particular insert. Once the track is frozen, its waveform will be displayed in a semi-transparent state with an angled pattern overlay.

There are three ways to initiate a track freeze or un-freeze: from the Tracks menu, by right-clicking on the track name in the Edit window, or by clicking on the new ‘snowflake’ button in the Edit window track header. Unlike Track Commit, though, there’s very little you can do by way of editing to the rendered track.

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Compared with Track Commit, which we’ve already covered in these pages, Track Freeze is an even simpler way to render out a track to free up system and DSP resources. With another click on the same ‘snowflake’ button, you can simply un-freeze the track at any time and return it to its original state. Introduced by Avid in Pro Tools 12.4, this new feature enables the ability to render any track and its processing to an audio file at a click. In our tour of the new features in Pro Tools 12, we arrive at Track Freeze.

We explore the ins and outs of the new Track Freeze function in Pro Tools 12.4. The upper track in this screenshot is frozen: note the greyed-out insert slots and the ‘hatched’ waveform background.
