Comments on: Quick tip: When your not sure just Deactivate.

By: DJ Chima

DJ Chima — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:39:25 +0000

I’ve found deactivating clips hugely useful when you want to save cpu by resampling a clip that has effects, but you don’t want to ditch the original. That way if you do want to make changes to the original there is a deactivated backup waiting there for you

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:46:00 +0000

Well it’s not turning off anything on the channel only the audio or notes inside the clip so I doubt you would feel any savings in resources.

By: FunnelCake

FunnelCake — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:38:12 +0000

does disabling the clip turn off all the resources for that clip or is it still using resources?

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:18:16 +0000

Hi Lance, if you mute the track everything on that track across the timeline will not be heard. Deactivating the clip only silences that unique point.

By: Lance Blaise of Tattoo Detectives

Lance Blaise of Tattoo Detectives — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:30:29 +0000

Is this better than just muting the specific track that the clip is in? I am just unsure of the difference here.

By: robbneu

robbneu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:33:52 +0000

This is a very cool tip. You could emulate this in Reason by right-clicking a clip and selecting “Mute Clip,” which I wasn’t even aware you could do until I started trying to figure out how this could be done. Thanks!

By: raytrace

raytrace — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:18:56 +0000

thats a very useful tip

the only time I ever managed to get those plain/seethrough clips before was when I fucked up something when I was trying to resample – one small tip I would also say is that if you freeze stuff – always save a final file with them unfreezed then you can delete the ‘freeze’ tracks – which are often massive – as long as you ‘collect and save’ you should be ok (i think haha)

By: Sound Design Tutorials

Sound Design Tutorials — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:37:05 +0000

I somehow missed this menu option until reading your post, and I’ve been using Live since it was first released. Great tip!

By: Charles Cushman

Charles Cushman — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:30:55 +0000

That also seems like a good way to save cpu power when you want to work on just the drums, for example, of a section since disabling a clip does not help.