bouncing tracks to 1 stereo track

[daveblue222]

just read a little bit of guerrilla home recording book.there is a section at the beginning outlining bouncing. it states that if you have, say 4 guitar tracks each with 2 plugins on, and if this is causing problems with playback due to cpu use, you can then bounce them all to a stereo track (whilst retaining the plugin effects)

im not sure if it explains this later in the book so thought i would ask here

i am using cubase le4 on a mac

-dave

 

[mjbphotos]

Do you have the Cubase manual? If so, read it, if not get one and read it! I'm not a Cubase user, but a quick look at the manual shows there is a 'bounce' key - I suspect that's what you need to use!

 

[grimtraveller]

Are you looking specifically on how this is done in Cubase LE4 or the general principle of creating a stereo track ?

 

[TimOBrien]

In ANY sequencer:

Solo the track(s) you want to use.

Export (or File>Export or Render) the tracks to a stereo file (keep it at 24bit if its recorded that way....) with the length set from 0.00 to the end of file.

Bring in the rendered file to the project and mute the original tracks.
Never delete the originals, you may want to make changes and do it again!

 

[daveblue222]

thanks Tim!!

Mjb, i do have the pdf manual but these frustrate the hell out of me for some reason. will try and get a physical copy at some point

cheers

 

[haymedic]

yup... this is definitely something you want to learn.

good boards/software have what are called 'busses' on them... (usually 8) and this is where tracks get routed through before the master. as an example... if you have drums on tracks 1-8 you put them through a stereo buss... from there, you can turn up or down, add effects, EQ, etc the whole buss and still have each track separate on the main board. get it? it's a very efficient way to do things.

'bouncing' is just recording the tracks to a stereo buss... then it's not using up as much memory (on a DAW) to free up speed or FX inserts/etc.

once they are 'bounced' down in the 'busses' they are called 'stems'.

s

 

[Chili]

With Cubase, solo the tracks you want to mixdown to a stereo track. Select File>Export> Audio Mixodwn. In the dialog box are options to add teh mixdown wav file to the audio pool and import as another track in the project; be sure to check those. Select the bit depth and sample rate to match your project settings (like 24bit/ 44.1khz, stereo, or whatevers...).