Disabling plugins does not decrease latency

[cduarte]

Is there any way to disable the plugins of a session and thereby reduce latency? In a scenario where we have an almost finished mix, mixed at 2048 samples with a lot of plugins, and we want to record some more instruments with minimal latency, is there any way that the disabled plugins are not consuming CPU/latency?

[Dingo]

https://rsrc.harrisonconsoles.com/mixbus...-a-session

If you hold Ctrl ( Cmd on Mac ) when clicking “OK”, the session will be opened in “SAFE” mode. Mixbus will ignore the last-used playhead position and zoom; and no plugins will be loaded. The plugins will appear as placeholders which you can edit or remove, and then re-open the session.

This should allow you to suspend plugin DSP load, record your over dubs, save the session and then open normally to re-engage the plugins. Make sure you do a save before just in case ...

PS:Whilst testing this I found I had to relaunch MB then open the session for plugs to re-enable...

The other approach which is commonly used when getting overdubs down at other studios... is to export a guide mix to a time stamped format, import that to a new session (insert at timestamp), do your overdubs, then export as timestamped elements which you then reimport into your main session.
Sounds complex but its really easy to do.

[cduarte]

Thank you Dingo! I got the idea. For some reason I'm not able to boot into "Safe" mode, but once I get it, I'll give it a try.
[I'm on version 7.2 on Windows 10]