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magicd wrote:Select All in the Tracks window.

Merge Soundbites from the Audio menu.

Go to the Project folder>Audio Files and view by date. The newly created audio files will be at the top of the list and ready to import to any other DAW.

Dave

Curious about this, I often do not render virtual instruments to audio files before exporting etc. So this method wouldn't work right? This wouldn't work on aux tracks or on V-racked instruments either I'm guessing. What I've done forever is to freeze all tracks, (instruments etc.) then export the frozen audio files. The downside to this is all tracks have to be batch renamed for clarity.

My biggest wish for DP 10 is definitely render options for tracks, i.e. something like this method that would work on anytrack in the Tracks window, so say you want to render Stems? select the 4-8 whatever Aux or audio tracks you set up to receive Bass, drums, vocal busses etc. select those aux tracks and render to separate audio files etc.

Michael Canavan wrote: My biggest wish for DP 10 is definitely render options for tracks, i.e. something like this method that would work on anytrack in the Tracks window, so say you want to render Stems? select the 4-8 whatever Aux or audio tracks you set up to receive Bass, drums, vocal busses etc. select those aux tracks and render to separate audio files etc.

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Yes being able to render everything to audio with a simple global command would be amazing. Once I have a mix having to render VI's, FX, etc is not easy.

Michael Canavan wrote: Curious about this, I often do not render virtual instruments to audio files before exporting etc. So this method wouldn't work right? This wouldn't work on aux tracks or on V-racked instruments either I'm guessing. What I've done forever is to freeze all tracks, (instruments etc.) then export the frozen audio files. The downside to this is all tracks have to be batch renamed for clarity.

My biggest wish for DP 10 is definitely render options for tracks, i.e. something like this method that would work on anytrack in the Tracks window, so say you want to render Stems? select the 4-8 whatever Aux or audio tracks you set up to receive Bass, drums, vocal busses etc. select those aux tracks and render to separate audio files etc.

Merge soundbites does exactly that. Merge soundbite does nothing in regards to an instrument or MIDI track. Merge soundbites will print crossfades, bite gain, and pitch automation. Merge soundbites does not include plug-ins or track automation.

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.

Dave

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.

I use Merge to make all my stems. My thought is whoever is doing a mix should not be saddled with my decisions. So just fades is all I put in the merge files. I did not know that merge file wrote the automation to the stem. I knew it did bite gain, fades and mutes... is that correct?

...and merge includes 'pitch'
Klaus

waxman wrote:I use Merge to make all my stems. My thought is whoever is doing a mix should not be saddled with my decisions. So just fades is all I put in the merge files. I did not know that merge file wrote the automation to the stem. I knew it did bite gain, fades and mutes... is that correct?

Merge does not include track automation.

Dave