is it possible to batch render to seperate files in cubase sx2?

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i'm trying to figure out if i can batch render in cubase. i want to just hit render or mixdown and have x amount of tracks render down to a folder, but i want each track to be an individiual wave. this will make it very easy for me to burn the untouched files from a session down on disk so that i can take it to another studio to get mixed down, i'm just doing tracking for now.
 
I'll take a shot here -

If you go to the file menu, and "save project to new folder". It will put all the wav files in the file you created in a subfolder called "audio". I have never done it, but those files could be burned to a disc, then imported into any audio program I would assume.

They would be unmixed, I am not sure what you mean by mixed into x tracks. If you want it mixed down to two seperate wave tracks that is easy to. But my way would leave them as they are in your project.

Hope that helps.

NL5
 
In short the answer is no. In the audio file of the project folder you will find all the audio you have recorded and imported but this will not be the same as the tracks in your project if you have made any edits. Using the "save project to a new folder" will allow you to streamline the project to save disk space (it is possible to save only the audio actually used in the project) and to make any processing carried out on audio files permenant. If however you have sliced an event on the arrange page and moved it arround then cubase will still only have the original audio file saved (unsliced) in the audio folder.

I wish there were a way to do this but im afraid you are stuck with soloing the tracks 1 by 1 and exporting audio files from the file menu.


Hope this helps.

Keith
 
Actually, I don't remember how, but there is way to create silence between each of the individual segments of each track so as to make it one continuous file. Then you can save to a new folder. I don't remember how because it has been a while, but I have done this before in order to allow a client to take discs to another studio to be imported to other programs. Also, you can print out a track sheet that you can use for all of the start times of each track and segment of each track. Its not the fastest way, but it would allow you to import to other programs.
 
There is no need to create silence between track segments the export audio function will create a filebetween the two locators and if this happens to have silence in there it will be part of the audio file.

I think the process you are talking about is "insert audio" in the processes menu.


Keith
 
If you are like me though, a lot of the tracks in a project will have several diffrent wav files in each. For creating a standard left and right summed file (i.e. mixdown or stereo interleaved export) then you are right, there is no reason to create silence between segments on a single track. However, if you want to take your project somewhere else for editing and or mixing, then it can make life a lot easier. If i wanted to take a project I recorded in Nuendo over to another studio and mix in Pro Tools, it is much easier to make sure every track at least starts at the same time location. If not, you have to load all of your tracks individually and then manually time align all of your segments. This can be a real headache depending on the amount of files that start and end with different time stamps. By creating some silence inbetween each file, you can save the project to a new folder and know that you just have to make sure that each file starts in the same place. I hope that made more sense.
 
Maybe we are talking cross purposes but you might just as well set the locators from the beginning of the piece to the end and then export each track using these settings. This way they will all align at the same point.


Keith
 
Thats true, and it will definately work. However, many of my projects are more than 32 tracks, and then i would have to wait while each track exported etc... I just wanted to point out that there are other options and that for different projects, one of the ways may be faster and/or easier than the other. Its really a case by case determination as to which way is more efficient.
 
Your quite right mate. More than 32 tracks.......... Geezer.
 
The easiest way I have found to do this.

1. Individually 'Bounce' each track so it is now one continous file. You have the option to render the send or insert effects if you want.
2. Go to the 'Pool' and 'Delete unused files'. This will create a clean Pool with only the full length tracks. (WARNING! this will remove all the small edit files. Don't do this if you want to go back later and change them.)
3. 'Save Project to New Folder'. This will put all the bounced tracks into a new folder. In the Audio folder you will have all of your bounced tracks. Burn those to CDR or whatever.

I did have to do one more step which was go to the Pool and Convert Files to 24bit since the default for Bounce seems to be 32bit.

If anybody knows an easier way please let me know.
 
Also don't use the "remove unused files" option unless you have stored each song and ALL of its data in a seperate master folder. If you have several songs using the same "audio" folder you will erase all of the other songs tracks at the same time you are cleaning the one song.
 
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