Moving a mix to another program?

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This might sound like a stupid question and it might be an obivous answer but right now i use ableton live to record. I record demos for other bands as well as my own. One band wants me to track everything but they want to mix it. So how can i give them each individual track from ableton so they can open it in whatever program they use?
 
Open Media Format files (OMF) are designed to do this. Not familiar with Ableton, so I don't know if it has the capability to export OMF files.

The alternative, of course, is simply to give them individual wave files of each track.
 
I would think to give just a bunch of wavs, you would need to add silence here and there, so that all the files start at the same exact point in time. I.e. if the guitar solo wav starts at 3:09, you would need to add 3:09 of silence to the beginning of that wav. Otherwise the recipients of those files would have a real headache trying to get everything lined up correctly.
 
Thanks for the replies. I'm not sure if ableton supports omf files i'll have to check but i remember reading that it doesnt. So i will probably just give them individual wav files.
 
you guys are overcomplicating it.

I don't think ableton does OMF's and while they are REALLY convenient for a few pieces of software you get some that don't support it, and then the BS with protools where you have to PAY a buttload of cash to get OMF support. I would say the best way is:

Here's what you do.

In ableton just set it to bounce as you would normally (the entire track selected from bar 1 to the end (don't change this or it will get confusing)...

then...

Solo each track..bounce...solo the next.. bounce...just changing the filename to suit what track you are bouncing. with the bounce always starting from the same point.

This will make it so all they have to do no matter what program they use is just import all of the wavs. Everything is lined up, ready to go allready, so there is no need to spend time figuring out how much silence to add here and there (which is not that accurate anyway because in order to keep your phase from differing from the mix you would have to figure it out on a sample level..min and sec would not be nearly close enough unless you want all their tracks to be horribly out of phase) That's what I do between ableton and logic all the time for the purpose of studio vs. live performance. (also you might want to go into a wave editing program and take tracks that are supposed to be mono and make them mono, just to save some space and CPU)
 
I'm with Terra...

works like a charm when exporting individual tracks from one program to another.

I've gone to/from CakeWalk, MAGIX, Audacity and Sony ACID using this method with no timing problems whatsoever.
 
Thanks! I will probably do that. Now if my guitar solo starts halfway through the song and there's no file before that... When it's imported would i have to move it to the correct position?
 
I don't know Ableton Live, but you should be able to make a selection of the entire region of your song, every track. Then consolidate them all at once, each track is the same length. Then you simply import the WAV's to your next software, line them all up at the same start point and should be good to go.
 
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