magicd wrote:I use Bounce to Disk to render instrument tracks to audio. Bounce is faster than real time. I choose the option to import to sequence. You can only generate one file at a time with bounce.
Freeze tracks is basically an automated record function. You can freeze multiple tracks with a single operation and that operation will happen in real time.
Right, so the best option if you're doing more than two files is to Freeze tracks.
But if you're looking at importing you're looking at renaming, not such a big deal in newer versions of the OSX Finder... The downside is it clutters your project if your purpose was to "flatten" as other DAWs call it all your tracks with plug ins and virtual instrument tracks to simple audio files. It's a lot of housekeeping to get to a Sequence Chunk with rendered audio files. This is something I've become hopelessly attached to doing from working in other DAWs like Logic and Live which have a selection for rendering all individual tracks to separate audio files. It's a time saver, and allows you to quickly open a new project while still having the original virtual instrument and audio FX tracks project.
DP "could" do much better than that with that feature, since your original Sequence Chunk with FX etc. could live in the same DP Project as the new audio file only project ready for heavy weight mixing and mastering plug ins. As it stands this is my workflow on this, Copy Sequence Chunk, Freeze all tracks, grab all frozen audio files and drag them to another folder, rename them (remove FREEZE etc.), open new Sequence Chunk and import audio.. I learned the hard way if you don't move and rename them they can get deleted with the project frozen tracks etc.
Yes, it is possible now, it's just a lot of housekeeping compared, and it doesn't seam to me to be that complicated to implement, (famous last words I know) as it stands the frozen audio is essentially rendering audio, it's just doing it with dependancies.
M2 Studio Ultra, RME Babyface FS, Slate Raven Mti2, NI SL88 MKII, Linnstrument, MPC Live II, Launchpad MK3. Hundreds of plug ins.