An Ableton Live 5 question
 

Hey, is there a way to render your midi clips in Ableton? In the song I'm working on right now I have 5 instances of Reaktor 5 running plus Battery 2 and a slew of Waves plugins... if I can render out my drums and my bass track though I could trim down my CPU usage fairly dramatically...

Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

Re: An Ableton Live 5 question
 

I'm too lazy to open Live right now to check but I believe what you want to do is make an audio track and choose the input as "resampling" which will allow you to make a real-time bounce of whatever tracks you want. Whether or not you have any options for non-realtime bouncing...me no know.

Re: An Ableton Live 5 question
 

By the way, though, I was going to suggest this for all us Live sound designy types...it's kind of silly, but I adore it:

Take Plaid's track Squance and loop the first two bars. I love the resulting sound so much I can just listen to it loop and I'm contemplating re-recording every CD I own with that added over top of it. Throw that sound with anything.

Re: An Ableton Live 5 question
 

You can freeze the tracks that you're happy with. Select the track with the right mouse button, choose freeze track and wait. This will help reducing the cpu usage.