Ableton/Live/UG/38 Computer Audio Resources/01 Managing the CPU Load/04 Track Freeze
- Freeze Track renders every Session and Arrangement clip on a track to a sample file, so playback stops recomputing its devices and clip settings. Run it from the Edit menu, a track or clip context menu, or
Cmd+Option+Shift+F (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F (Win). - Only tracks holding clips can be frozen, so Group Tracks, return tracks and the Main track cannot. Tracks using External Audio Effect or External Instrument freeze in real time.
- A frozen track's device and clip settings are locked until Unfreeze Track. Bounce Track in Place commits a track to new audio for good, and also works on Group Tracks.
- Still available on frozen tracks: clip launching, volume, pan and sends, and also:
- cutting, copying, pasting, duplicating and trimming clips
- drawing mixer automation and mixer clip envelopes
- consolidating clips
- recording Session launches into the Arrangement
- creating, moving and duplicating scenes
- dragging frozen MIDI clips onto audio tracks
- Edits to a frozen track with time-based effects can sound different after unfreezing, because those effects are recomputed then.
- Frozen Arrangement tracks keep effect tails as crosshatched temporary clips beside the original clips; select the tail along with its clip when moving it. Frozen Session clips hold only two loop cycles.
- Dragging a frozen clip into a drop area makes a new frozen track with that clip, or only its selected part.
- Freeze files go in the project's
Samples/Processed/Freeze folder, or the Temporary Folder for an unsaved Set. Freezing also lets a slower computer, or one missing a device, play a Set.
