

One small point to make is that some suggest us calling it track freeze by another name is 'spreading a lot of misinformation.' So technically it's not track freeze as we've already pointed out at the start of this article, but for the most part it achieves the same thing, so we'll leave other people to split that hair, in the words of William Shakespeare 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'ĭoes this mean we don't think it's a good idea? Of course we think it's a good idea, but one of the very reasons track freeze arrived in other DAWs was because the native computers could not handle the processor intensive plug-ins being used and track freeze solved that problem. That said, track freeze is less needed than it was when people first asked for it, as one comment said on this blog ' people have been asking for track freeze for years.' Yes they have and years later it's arrived, but it's not needed as much as it was when the feature was first asked for. It has to be noted that having track freeze in a modern DAW is expected, so no one should celebrate this as if Avid have just put a man on Mars, but it does mean that Pro Tools is now not lagging behind every other DAW on the market.

There are various versions of track freeze in various DAWs and the Commit Track features offer some very nifty options to make that feature very useful. We think it does, we think this is the version of Pro Tools that should have been Pro Tools 12.0 - with new features that help bring Pro Tools up to date and in some ways implemented in very clever ways. So does the latest of version due to be released in November - Pro Tools 12.3 change anything? Pro Tools 12.3 New Features - Our Verdict You can have up to 5 memory locations for your favourite fades. The Batch Fades window now offers the ability to add different fades across the timeline at the same time, again this will be a huge timesaver for audio editors working with its of audio clips on the timeline. This helps to keep Pro Tools ahead of the game when it comes to audio editing.


It will also help with archiving future proofed sessions.Īnother nice edition is the clip transparency feature that allows the user to see the original position of the clip/s as you drag them along the timeline. This simplifies and speeds up the sending of stems to other people and has a number of workflows to make this process as painless as possible.
