User Manual

OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE
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Optimizing Songs
Below follows things you can check and change to make sure your song uses as little computer processing power
and memory as possible:
Global
• To reduce the Song file size, delete unused recordings on Audio Tracks.
This won’t affect the processing power but will reduce the Song file size, which might be desirable in many situa-
tions. See “Delete Unused Recordings”.
• Use the “Save and Optimize” function when you’re finished editing your song.
As a final step, after you have recorded and edited your song, use the “Save and Optimize” function on the File
menu. This will remove any “empty” disk areas in the song file, making the file as small as possible - see “Saving
and optimizing a Song”.
• Bounce Mixer Channels.
If you’re using a lot of devices in an instrument track, you could bounce the instrument track to an Audio Track. Do-
ing so makes it possible to delete the instrument track afterwards and thus reduce the processing power. See
“Bouncing Mixer Channels”.
• Delete unused devices.
If a device isn’t actually doing anything, delete it from the rack.
• Use fewer devices.
For example, instead of using several similar reverbs as separate insert effects, replace them all with one, set up as
a send effect on a Send FX bus in the Main Mixer. By the same token, try to use one sampler playing several dif-
ferent samples instead of numerous samplers playing one sample each.
• Don’t use stereo unless it is required.
For example, if a sampler or Dr. Octo Rex loop player is playing mono material, only connect the Left output and
leave the Right output unconnected.
Main Mixer
• Make sure you deactivate any channel strip parameters or sections you don’t use in your song.
This could, for example, be Input Gain and INV, EQ, Filters, Dynamics and Insert FX.
• Delete any Mix Channel devices and/or Audio Track devices you don’t use in your song.
Sample Players – NN19, NNXT, Dr. Octo Rex and Redrum (Record+Reason)
• Only activate High Quality Interpolation when it is required.
Listen to the sound in a context and determine whether you think this setting makes any difference.
• If you are playing back a sample at a much higher pitch than it was recorded at, consider sample rate convert-
ing the actual sample file to a lower sample rate.
This will require an external sample editor with good sample rate conversion facilities.
• Try to refrain from using stereo samples.