RECORD - Bouncing Audio
I’ve been working on some commissioned dance music for a workout DVD using Propellerhead’s RECORD for the last week. I decided this morning it’s time to move over to Cubase 5 so I can go deep into editing land as well as to use some vsti’s I’ve got kicking around. So I tried the Bounce Mixer Channels feature which gives me all of my tracks in wav format for import into another DAW. That’s all fine, but the headline here is that RECORD pumped out, in 1 (ONE) pass, 15 stereo wav files, almost 3 minutes long, 26MB each, in about 15 seconds.
15 seconds!!!!!
I haven’t compared with Cubase 5 yet, but I know painfully well that this is impossible in Cubase 4. Even with an export automation utility like MEAP, this would take 10 minutes +, on TOP of the fiddly setup time.
HUGE props, Propellerhead!
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Reaper does this pretty well too. And is one of the main reasons I bailed on Cubase. Not offering a multi-track export option is insanity.
Agreed on the lack of multi-track export insanity… but I think Steinberg has put some of this functionality into C5, though I haven’t tried it yet.
I’m blown away by the fact that I hit export ONCE and all tracks were output in one 15 second pass. Unbelievable.
I’m hearing great things about Reaper around the intertubes as well… Big name DAW companies had better be listening because competition is really getting serious!
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