Digi did have the power to do this so it seems to me this was a creative decision. It's probably a bit of both!
you mean they introduced AS before RTAS because the lack of realtime plug-ins for non-TDM users were good for creativity?
try to open 4 reverbs on a 100Mhz PPC and you´ll see what i mean.
It does actually. It's in the sample editor. You select the plugin, set the parameters and hit render. Hence "destructive".
thats what i am saying: in PT you needed an AS plug-in. in cubase it was right in the master channel. in logic you had to record shit in realtime.
Of course you back up your source file
well ... then i´think i´d like to avoid that step.^^
in best case a tool would just give you two options, isnt it?
I personally can't stand freezing as it adds an additional several steps to the process I outlined above. You have to first put the plugins on the track, next freeze it, then flatten and start again. Audiosuite you open the plugin and process.
i dont like it either but for other reasons, and again i think youre mistaking what it does.
freezing is today implemented as a one-click option. it renders the track to file, and then plays the file from disk while turning the plug-ins off. all automatically, and the main difference to overwriting old files is that you can undo it.
i dont see myself using it for effects,. but it is a great CPU saver for virtual instruments tracks.
We finally did it".
yeah, right, as an additional option every new or old option is welcome.
it is always a PITA when they remove stuff from an app!
you just mentioned
soundeffects last week - i´ve been doing a lot there back in the days, because it was simply faster to work with this system from our favourite dentist compared to "major" commercial programs.
but otherwise i am more the guy who removes the "save in" function from his apps with resedit and never deletes his backup archives of everthing. you never know...