How do you guys cut down on the amount of tracks you have in one project?

1. Bounce synth layers into one track.
2. Avoid redundancy. Don't have more than one track doing the exact same thing as another track.
3. Delete tracks that are really not contributing that much to the track.
4. Place similar sounds on the same track (like short glitchy sounds, etc..)
4. Group instruments into groups, bounce them, load these stems into a fresh new project and continue working. Personally, I never like having more than 50-60 tracks at a time, sometimes less (30-40). It's just clutter to me when it goes beyond 40 tracks.

I find myself always getting to the point in my tracks where i have close to a 100 different tracks in my DAW (Logic Pro) and it gets not only laggy but overwhelming. I think to myself constantly that there must be a better way but i cant seem to find any tips online. Each and every sample i drag in or sound i make needs a completley different volume level or specific plugin that makes it need its own specific track.

I know you can send tracks to Aux channels to cut down on this, but that only gets me so far.

How do you guys cut down on the amount of tracks you have in one project?

I use Logic as well. The thing that reduced the amount of tracks I used the most was sample selection. I used to layer everything thinking that I needed at least 3 layers on my kick & snare (Low, Mid, High) in order to get things to sound good. Once I realized that the amount of layering I had going on just made it harder for me to edit things I started using less layering and focused more on finding good samples. Things don't need to be layered in order to sound good I realized and that made life much easier when it came to editing things.


If you want to devise a workflow in which you have very little tracks then you should make it a conscious effort. Like Zau said maybe bounce your layers to audio if you want to remove clutter. Since you're using Logic though using the "hide" feature is very helpful when it comes to that. I don't know if you're aware of it but if you click "h" then you can hide tracks from the arrangement window and they'll still play ln order to make things less cluttered.

Well my computer is pretty shitty so i have A LOT of problems with lagging if i dont render tracks!

For some of my last tracks i compose all the drums first in a project and render them all together as a file then start another project,add the drums file and start composing the melodies.
But it might not work for every genre,like dance...not sure would be good...(these tracks are drillandbass style)
Also its a pain in the ass if you have to make changes in drums...

But in all style i render some of the FX,secondary melodies that im sure i wont make changes to them to free some space.

But basically, i really should get a better PC....hehe