Mixing Tracks together into submixes

[MercyfullMusic]

My CPU meter kept having the "dropout" alarm go off, and usually that's because there's too many Cakewalk Effects on too many tracks. So I wanted to mix tracks into submixes or export them into stereo wav files and create a new project with them and put effects on them as a whole: i.e. all guitar tracks mixed together, etc. The problem I kept having is that no matter how I selected multiple tracks when I went to Export them or to Bounce tracks together, either way they mixed ALL the tracks together. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I was trying to click on the track number on the left, hold down shift and click on other tracks. Visually it looked right on the screen, because only certain tracks were highlighted, but no matter what combination I did it would export all the tracks in the project. I also tried doing the same by clicking on the audio wav pattern on the right and using shift, but that didn't work either. I know Cakewalk can do this, but there's something I'm doing wrong. HELP!!!

[Tekker]

You have to mute all the tracks that you don't want to be mixed down/exported. Because when you mix down, it is mixing down whatever is "playing" at the time, so even though you have those tracks selected, the other tracks are still playing and therefore being included in the mixdown.

Hope that helps.

-tkr

[dachay2tnr]

Tekker's got the answer...

You could also try assigning the tracks that you want to submix to an Aux Bux and then apply the FX to the Bus rather than the individual tracks. This is a little easier than exporting them as a wave, and will still allow you to make individual volume adjustments to each track.

It obviously won't reduce the track count, but will reduce the number of plugins you are using (assuming you want to apply the same effects to all the tracks).