There’s also another newer quite big thread about this request here:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/multiple-track-freeze-unfreeze/159374
In that thread, I suggested the improvement to also include either “Automatic Tail Size Detection”, or simpler an additional Fadeout-section, to the Freeze function.
The reason is to automatically avoid abrupt cut off tails (e.g. reverb). This function would be more important when freezing many tracks in one go. A quote as a summary of that suggestion (so it’s documented also in this thread):
I can see 3 different levels of ambition to the Batch Freeze function:
- Include “Automatic Tail Size Detection” (detect tail silence automatically, option to set threshold value and fade-out length).
- Include “Fade-out section” that automatically applies to the tail end (option to set fade-out length).
- None of the above, just cut the tail at set time length (as now) (sufficient most of the time).
This functionality could be used though also for Render-in-place and for Arranger Track Events, so it’s not only for Batch Freeze.
But yes, it is more important to have the Batch Freeze at all, than to also include additional finesse.
Level 2, add a Fadeout-section, should be easy to implement and would be sufficient.
Level 1 would take a bit more time to implement. It that’s motivated or not depends on the additional development time needed for automatical level detection. Steinberg would know better of implementation time needed, of course.