8 Effective Ways to Use Our Freeze Tool

Bounce a Submix.
If you've got a submix just right in SoundBridge, you can print the "Group Track" the elements belong to using the Freeze Tool. This way, you have a pre-mixed composite stem and are not risking losing that perfect blend. Not to mention, you can free up a lot of processing space by getting rid of the "children" tracks, especially if they're running VSTs. Of course, you may want to save a copy of the project containing the "children" in case you want to change a sound later.
Bounce Return Effects
Bouncing (recording) the wet signal in a parallel process is a preference of many engineers and producers. This technique may help you in several ways. a) It allows you to edit the wet material in the audio editor. b) It frees up processing space by allowing you to delete the return. c) It shows you the changes the effects have made on the waveform. d) It allows you to experiment with the phase relationship of the dry and wet signals. e) It allows you to experiment with different performances on the dry and wet channels.
Separate Kits Into Individual Tracks
The freeze tool provides an excellent solution for separating the parts in a drum sampler into individual tracks in SoundBridge. I like to compose drum parts within one instance of a drum sampler (one track) to get the sounds down then separate the parts before processing and remixing them. Essentially, the freeze tool will record whatever comes out of the selected track and place it into a new audio track, so if you go into the drum sampler you are using and solo an individual element, the freeze tool will make you an audio track with just that element.
Document the Steps of a Sound Design Process
SoundBridge is my go-to DAW for creating sound effects because the freeze tool is a quick and easy way to "document" everything. I often find myself wishing I hadn't committed to a specific edit or that it "sounded better before" - and in other systems, those sounds are gone forever. Here, you can capture each process stage in an audio track. With a few clicks, you can be sure your "gold takes" are retrievable while creating an impressive bank of variations on your sound.
Export Several Perfectly Trimmed and Faded Samples at Once
This technique is sort of the opposite of #3. Instead of using the freeze tool to separate a kit of samples into individual tracks, you are using it to aggregate a multitude of samples. Say you have ten finely polished and trimmed samples in SoundBridge that you want to load into a drum sampler... to export all of them to a location, place each of them at the start of the sequencer and freeze all the tracks "to file" with "bounce blocks" on. You can even normalize the samples automatically using the freeze tool.
Finalize Automation
Get rid of those pesky automation lanes! When you get it right, print it so there is no risk of losing the feeling you achieved. Mixer parameters like panning and pregain are incredibly delicate in the user interface. Getting these edits out of your hair by bouncing the track to a new audio track can help your sanity. It also allows you to experiment with automating the same parameters again and "compound the automation." This is an unconventional action to take, but may create something desirable that you haven't already discovered.
Make "Stacks"
This is a simple technique that often gets overlooked because of how easy it is to do. In short, the freeze tool allows you to change a setting, bounce the track, change a setting, bounce the channel, change a setting, etc…. then mix the layers. Remember, since "freezes" are audio, you should be satisfied with the MIDI composition before freezing variations of the sound that is playing it.
Make Variations of the Master for Distribution
Chances are, your mixing and mastering engineers do not want what you have put on your master track. They need headroom to do their magic. That said, this does not mean you should never try to master your channel. With the freeze tool, you can bounce the master with your plugins running to a new muted audio track and call it "my master," then bypass or delete the plugins before sending the session off for a mix. This way, you can humbly include your brainchild in the session without aggravating the engineers. You can also see the effect that your plugins are having on the waveform, which may divulge issues you didn't know you had (i.e., over-compression, clips, DC offset).

8 Effective Ways to Use Our Freeze Tool

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