Lauren2010
Logician
First, I had a similar (but different) thread a few weeks ago, but the conversation turned to a different topic, so I thought I'd try again with a little more detail thrown in based on some additional experience....
I am sending my songs out for mixing and mastering from my logic 9 system to someone else (don't know the system he will use, they have protools and cubase and other systems, though they will be mixing in 96K, the same rate my recordings are in )
Right now in logic 9 the only way I know to consolidate (as defined by protools) a track and its regions to a single MONO file is to bounce it. But I have to manually bypass all plugins and set the fader fully to R or L, change interleaved parameter to split, turn off automation, etc.. Then I delete the file (R or L) that has no audio in it.
Then I have to repeat that process for every track.
Does bouncing in this way degrade the original/raw audio? Does bouncing create a "second generation" audio file?
Is there a better way to bounce or export all tracks so that each track has its own resulting file in MONO and at the original bitrate without effects or other edits (pans, automation etc) and so each file is the same time length from start and end of the song and the audio is not degraded from the original raw recording?
A second option is to use the export function, but this function results only in stereo wav files. It operates on either all tracks or just one track. This function allows me to easily bypass effects, disable automation, but preserves panning settings. I could indeed use this function instead of bounce, but first I'd have to find a way to split the resulting stereo wave file and discard the empty channel (anyone know of an easy way to do this?). But I also don't know if export is better than bounce at preserving the raw audio.
A third option might be to glue together all the regions in each track and somehow make the one big region on each track the exact same length of the song, then I could simply drag the mono file from the audio bin. I know how to glue the regions together, but to then make the region the same length as the entire song is a mystery to me.
Many thanks for any advice
I am sending my songs out for mixing and mastering from my logic 9 system to someone else (don't know the system he will use, they have protools and cubase and other systems, though they will be mixing in 96K, the same rate my recordings are in )
Right now in logic 9 the only way I know to consolidate (as defined by protools) a track and its regions to a single MONO file is to bounce it. But I have to manually bypass all plugins and set the fader fully to R or L, change interleaved parameter to split, turn off automation, etc.. Then I delete the file (R or L) that has no audio in it.
Then I have to repeat that process for every track.
Does bouncing in this way degrade the original/raw audio? Does bouncing create a "second generation" audio file?
Is there a better way to bounce or export all tracks so that each track has its own resulting file in MONO and at the original bitrate without effects or other edits (pans, automation etc) and so each file is the same time length from start and end of the song and the audio is not degraded from the original raw recording?
A second option is to use the export function, but this function results only in stereo wav files. It operates on either all tracks or just one track. This function allows me to easily bypass effects, disable automation, but preserves panning settings. I could indeed use this function instead of bounce, but first I'd have to find a way to split the resulting stereo wave file and discard the empty channel (anyone know of an easy way to do this?). But I also don't know if export is better than bounce at preserving the raw audio.
A third option might be to glue together all the regions in each track and somehow make the one big region on each track the exact same length of the song, then I could simply drag the mono file from the audio bin. I know how to glue the regions together, but to then make the region the same length as the entire song is a mystery to me.
Many thanks for any advice