Export

⌘E

Export the mix

A small panel asks for the delivery first: WAV · 24 BIT, AAC · 192 KBPS, or AAC · 256 KBPS. Then it asks where to put it. Above 48 kHz the two AAC rows are drawn dead: the system's encoder will not take the rate, and a hidden resample is not an answer this program gives.

Export writes the master bus through exactly the same mixer you are listening to, a few hundred times real time. If the mix clips it says so, with how many samples had to be clamped. The reverb tail is allowed to hang past the last sample rather than being cut off, and the loop is ignored. An export is the song.

Finished mixes land in Export/ beside the project.

• Clear every solo and mute: ⇧S and ⇧M.
• Look at the master meter, and at the lane. Nothing red.
• Listen past the last note, so the reverb tail has somewhere to go.

⇧⌘E

Export tracksThe strips you picked, one file each, or the whole desk with nothing picked.

With strips picked, you get those strips. With nothing picked, you get the whole desk: every strip that is heard in the mix in its own right, so eight drum tracks and the bus they feed are not the drums twice. The set adds back up to the mix.

One more choice than the mix export asks: 24 BIT or 32 FLOAT. 24 bit is a delivery and clamps what goes over full scale, saying how much. Float is a stem going into another mix and carries it.

Nothing is rewired, nothing is switched off and nothing is saved. The files go into a fresh run folder under Export/, named Tracks, then Tracks 2, and they never come back as tracks. A strip under a VCA leaves with the VCA's gain in it, because that is where a VCA lands.

In the track list, with exactly one strip picked, COMMIT prints that strip to a file and asks the one question a commit has, where in the chain to cut: after the trim, the EQ, the gates, the compressor, the FX, or the fader.

Everything up to the point is baked into a file in Audio/. Everything after it is carried onto the new strip as settings. The pan, the sends, the mute and the solo are never baked. The new strip stands where the old one stood, and the original is disabled, not removed.

So there is a way back. The swallowed strips fold under the print in the list, and one button goes both ways: UNCOMMIT brings them back into the mix and parks the print, RECOMMIT prints again into the same file at the same cut, keeping everything you did to the print in the meantime. Commit a harmony stack, work on the print, open it up, re-balance, print again.

Committing a bus switches off everything routed into it, and the panel says how many before you press.

Exporting doesn't end anything. The mix itself is a plain text file that lives in the project's package, saved on every change, and it will still open long after this beta is old.

So export early. Listen to it in the car, on the phone, on the kitchen speaker. Then come back and move one fader.