Freezing audio clips

You can render any audio into an audio clip. Rendering to audio is more commonly known as freezing. Like version control, freezing gives you a version of your sound that will not change. Rendering to audio or freezing means creating an audio clip sample out of any sound that passes through a mixer track. Freezing audio clips into samples has several benefits:

• It allows you to chop up the audio sample and access audio sample controls. You gain all the benefits of using a sample, such as being able to control sample envelope controls and use samples in other plugins, such as in DirectWave.
• A sample is less CPU-intensive than an instrument with effects. If you notice your computer lagging due to the usage of lots of plugins, you can speed up your computer by freezing CPU-intensive mixer tracks into audio.

Although you may not use freezing tracks at first, it’s something that will become important when you start to have tons of effects...