Bouncing each track independently

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I've got our CD in Pro Tools completely mixed and finished (in fact it's been mastered and pressed and all that fun stuff.) I'd like to take the completely mixed files from Pro Tools and pull them into Ableton Live (which we use live and in my home studio) to mess with some backing electronics and potential remixes of the songs. Is there an easy way to bounce each sepearate wav form after consolidation down in order to bring them into live separtely? Right now the only solution I'm finding is to solo a track, bounce it to disk and repeart for each other track. Well, if we figure there are at least 15 tracks per song, our average song length is around 5 minutes (I know, we make each song worth it...) and there are 11 full length songs on the record we're talking almost 14 hours of simply bouncing each track down. Surely there must be an easier way, right? In live I can select render -> render all and it wil spit out separate wavs for each track in the project. Any ideas? :confused:
 
If you have to render any RTAS/TDM plugins, you'll have to bounce them individually. People have asked for an offline bounce from Digi for a long time.

You export the WAV/AIFF files via Region bin-->Export Selected as files...but that won't render any effects you have to the tracks.
If all the plugins you're using have Audio Suite counterparts you can process the tracks individually and then just bypass the plugin...THEN export as files, but that would take a bit too. And it won't export volume automation unfortunately.

The only other option I can offer you is creating 15 new tracks, routing the 15 old ones to the new ones and bouncing them all at once. Then export as a file. That would save time, but it uses up a lot of voices.
 
That seems to be the consensus on the research I've done. The CD was recorded in LE, so some tracks might be hard to mix down, although I guess I could bounce the drums all to once bus and reduce tracks that way...
 
How many free busses have you got?

The reason I ask is cause what you can do is set each track's output to be a bus, the create a bunch of new tracks, and set their inputs to be the respective busses. You then record arm these new tracks and press record! End of story.

I can't think of any good reason why this might not work...then again, I only just thought of it. If it does work, it will be faster than AudioSuite'ing each plugin on each track then exporting each track...
 
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