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Managing system resources during mixdown

Managing system resources during mixdown - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Managing system resources during mixdown

Bottom line, when mixing in a DAW like Pro Tools, the faster your computer the better. In a non-DSP accelerated or native environment, the Pro Tools mixer and plug-ins pull all their resources directly from the computer's processor. So it stands to reason that the faster your computer is, the more simultaneous tracks and plug-ins you can run while mixing. That's said, there's some optimizations you can to make any Pro tool system to improve the resources available while mixing. Our first line of defense in this is the Setup > Playback Engine. Well, you might already know that the hardware buffer size should be set low when recording to reduce overall system latency. Setting it higher when mixing gives a system more time to process things like plug-ins and higher track counts. Now we don't really need a low latency when we are mixing because we're not actively holding an instrument in our hands and recording to disk and hearing the output back through our headphones. So if there's an…

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