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Track Archive
Is there a way to “Archive” a track? In (Cakewalk) SONAR (audio software), you can Archive a track. I.e., it more than muted – it is dead. The playback engine doesn’t have to process it while it is playing. In order to bring it back, you must Unarchive it. Muted tracks are always processed by the engine (to some degree) in the event that you Unmute it during playback. Archived tracks are basically ignored.
I don’t see a Track Archive feature in Vegas. No!?
Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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Muted tracks are ignored. Not sure what more an archive would do but if you mute something in Vegas, it doesn’t get processed.
~jr
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I think a Muted track is still processed (to some degree), it just isn’t viewable. E.g., take a rendered video and place it in Track 1. Use Preview. Press Mute and Unmute on Track 1. The video will appear and disappear. Thus, Vegas is keeping track of that file and where it needs to be (in the fiel) so that it can process it during Preview.
Now, in SONAR, the same thing applies. You can Mute and Unmute a track. SONAR still keeps track of what audio gets routed where or what MIDI events get sent to what bus/channel, and you can Mute and Unmute during playback. However, you cannot do this to an Archived track. It is essentially dead. It exists in the SONAR file, but it 100% ignored during playback/processing.
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> Thus, Vegas is keeping track of that file and where it needs to be (in the fiel) so that it can process it during Preview.
Not really. If the track is muted it never needs to worry about it and can just skip it when processing. (i.e., the algorithm just needs to process unmuted tracks and never sees the muted ones) I’m not sure what the overhead of skipping a muted track is, or where you are going with this, but on a modern computer, I’d bet the difference is insignificant.
At any rate, the answer to your question is, No… Vegas does not provide a way to “archive” a track.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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I remember the old days working in Sonar and using the archive feature because PC’s still lacked in horsepower. It was a huge time and energy saver. I don’t think I’d ever need the feature in Vegas because PC’s pack much more power and also I don’t have a couple dozen tracks playing all at the same time. In Sonar, yes, in Vegas, I just don’t run that many layers at the same time.
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