How High Do You Raise Your Buffer Size?

I'm curious as to how high those of you who work with dense pop mixes raise your buffer when mixing. I'm working on a mix now with 3 Altiverbs, lots of SSL plugs, delays, comps, etc, and about 55 tracks, about twenty of which are virtual instruments, the rest audio. Things are getting a bit sluggish. I'm at 256 right now.
I'm really not convinced yet that native is ready to do battle with HD;)
The project is running off two internal drives (samples on one, audio on another). Mac Pro Dual 2.8 core, 8g ram.
Thanks
Tom
Message was edited by: Tom Hartman1

Well, rendering is what I do when a track is finished, I bounce it to audio INCLUDING the insert effects. It is more of a statement of 'thats finished, AND, I can see an audiofile in the Finder. The Frozen audiofile is in itself not accessible (unless you'ld use some utility to reveal it - but don't try that at home...), it is just a timesaving macro to quickly free up some power (the main reason why it's there), and still be able to tweak the track.
To summarize:
Freeze: +track not finished yet...+
very good feature when in the middle of composing, arranging - still creating, changing... you get the pic. No power lost on applying effects, running the VI etc.
rendering (or bouncing, or exporting audio, basically all the same): track ready!
it is the last step before mixdown.
if you need to see an audiofile in Finder, bounce, if not, freeze.
just my 1.5 Eurocents...
regards, Erik.

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