Andres Medina

I understand. I don't know anything about programming/coding, so excuse my ignorance. My contributions to this thread are from the angle of the user perspective. Thanks for all the effort you guys put in this! Yes, I will use alternative ways to so the same tasks. CW is flexible enough to do things in several ways!

Thanks - Using Buses as Source Category would mix the tracks feeding that bus into one single audio clip, not separate audio files for each track. May be I'm trying to do something highly unusual, or may be plain wrong! The whole purpose of this is to be able to export several tracks at once, maintaining the sound that I hear, that is routed through buses. A workaround that I found is to simply bounce first the tracks that I want to export, and from these already bounced tracks perform the "export tracks through entire mix". But it creates one additional step on the export process, and I was hoping that this new source category would reduce it. No big deal anyway...

Thanks! Yes, but when exporting folders, the exported audio combines all tracks into 1 single track, similar to bouncing to one track, but in this case, to an external file. It doesn't separate the individual tracks in individual files...

I haven't, because what I want is to export several individual tracks at once, and that this tracks exports as I hear them, but on individual files.

I haven't, because what I want is to export several individual tracks at once, and that this tracks exports as I hear them, but on individual files.

I did: it's the same. What you hear is fine, but the export process ignores the bus sidechaining.

For the sake of simplicity, say I have two buses: 1. Vocals Bus (containing all vocal tracks routed to this bus) 2. Instrumental parts Bus (containing all instrument tracks routed to this bus) I have a compressor (CA 2A) in Bus 2 that is fed by a send from Bus 1. When there are no vocal parts active, Bus 2 is at full volume. When there are active vocals, the sidechain makes the compressor to kick in and lower the volume on Bus 2.

Thanks! One more piece of info that just happened: When exporting several tracks that are routed to a master bus that contains a plugin (i.e the Adaptive Limiter), the resulting audio is distorted after the export process, but not when hearing the mix. Definitely something is going on in the interaction between tracks and buses in this scenario of "Tracks Through Entire Mix" source category.

I am sidechaining from a bus to another bus. It's common in ducking, when you want certain buses to drive changes in others (like decreasing the volume of the slave bus when the master bus is active, using a compressor) i.e Vocals lowering the volume of instrumental parts or whole instrumental mix buses. When the routing of the sidechain is between tracks, the exported audio represents what you hear. When it is between buses, it doesn't, it is not what you hear. Apparently the sidechaining on the buses are ignored in the export process. I already PM you with the link to the test project.

Regarding Tracks Through Mix + Sidechaining - I've tested this and here are the results (build 124): If the sidechaining is placed on the tracks itself, the exported audio is correct: it follows the sidechain involved. However, If the sidechaining is placed on a bus, the exported audio does not follows the sidechain, but ignores it. Not sure if this is expected or not. My understanding is that the Tracks Through Mix category should replicate what I hear, all the way through the signal path? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes! It works fine now. Thanks!

Got it. Thanks!

Got it. Thanks! I'll do another test later with the new build (123). As for the 114, it's not behaving that way. The exported instrumental audio track is not being affected by the sidechained compressor.

Right. Final export, not bounce to tracks. I already tried, and the exported audio is not being affected by the sidechain compressor (which is in a bus...). Not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the signal flow of this new sidechaining on exporting individual tracks through the mix. 😮

I understand. Perhaps I'm confused. I was thinking about , say two tracks, instrumental + vocals, routed each to a different BUS. The instrumental bus has a sidechained compressor, driven by the vocal track aux send. If I export the corresponding tracks, using the new Tracks Through Entire Mix source category, it will generate two separate tracks, and the instrumental track will be affected by the sidechain?

The ability to export stems with sidechained tracks automatically included is great! However, I wonder if this feature can be selected-deselected by the user, the same way you configure the Mix and Render options? My concern is that not always you want the sidechains to be included in the export, like when the tracks are going to be mixed externally by another studio. Of course a workaround for this would be to use another source rather than tracks, i.e Buses or Hardware outputs, but in this case you will need to export each stem individually as we all were doing, before this great update!

Ok. Yes, I do.

Thanks! Noel, how do I revert to previous build, not 2021.06 ... just run the installer?

Another thing: saving a preset in the export audio dialog does not save the Range selection, as before.

I found issues with the Export Audio functions, that were not present in previous build: The "Time Selection Range" is not working. To reproduce: Select an audio clip Initiate Export Audio Select Tracks Through Entire Mix in Source Category Select Time Selection on "Range" The selection on the track pane changes to entire project, which is wrong, and the audio is exported following this mistaken selection. UPDATE: also, before this build, the selection of a particular clip(s) on the track pane automatically selected the corresponding track(s) and the time region on the export dialog. In this build none of this happens.

Thanks Gavin! I'll do.

Same here -

So far, this build is working great: Tried the Articulation Pane and is working again as expected. Once you get your export/bounce presets customized to your needs, it's a breeze to execute this tasks. The new Tracks Through Entire Mix Source category makes it possible to export a bunch of tracks routed through plugins on the main buses, each track separately, something that was not possible before. It's a bless for speeding the workflow. Thanks!!

Yep - Similar to the new Export/Bounce windows. Try inserting articulations on the art. pane.

Yes, confirmed. The articulation pane is not working. I reverted to 2021.06 build 58 and it works fine there.