- #ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS UPDATE#
- #ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS ARCHIVE#
- #ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS PRO#
The basic approach to batch exporting is the same as with any normal bouncing of your stereo mix: go to File / Export / Audio Mixdown and click, which will bring up the new Export dialogue box. Thankfully, the facility introduced in Cubase 5 ticks all of those boxes - although there are still one or two limitations, which I'll discuss later. Other than project archiving or transfer to another DAW, there are plenty of situations in which you might want to bounce only a few parts at a time: maybe you're composing or sound‑designing for picture and want to send several stems to a dubbing mixer, by exporting only your group tracks alternatively, you might want to provide a few selected parts for a remixer to play with or perhaps you want to do your own mastering and wish to export three separate mixes, each using different master-bus processing, for comparison in another application, or a new Cubase project.Ī fully featured batch‑export function, then, needs to be flexible, and as a minimum to include options that suit each of the above scenarios.
It pays to be methodical about naming your new files, and the new Naming Scheme dialogue box makes that process easier than ever.
#ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS ARCHIVE#
In other words, you just archive everything as audio. So the safest, most inclusive approach - and that which, in my experience, is the most commonly used - is to bounce everything down as individual audio tracks, all starting at the same point, so that you'll be able to load every part, whether virtual instrument, audio, effects or group channels in the other software. In any case, I've found OMF to be a bit hit‑and‑miss, and neither of these approaches takes account of the various MIDI, virtual instrument and send‑effect channels. However, not all DAWs work as well as they should with either approach, and for some you have to invest in expensive add‑ons to use the OMF function. Alternatively, you could try exporting the clips as time‑stamped broadcast wave (BWF or BWAV) formats, which can be automatically aligned in the target DAW. For example, you could try using the OMF export function, which exports regions and timing information, level settings and a few other parameters. In these situations there are several options.
#ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS PRO#
The most obvious applications for batch exports are project archiving, and preparing files for transfer to another DAW - perhaps you want someone else to mix your track in Pro Tools, for example. But for those of you who've invested in Cubase 5, I thought it might be useful to explore the new functionality, and to discuss in which scenarios it might prove useful - or, for that matter, in which it could remain frustrating! Why Batch? If you're still running a previous version of Cubase, you can read about some workarounds in the columns I wrote back in SOS December 2006 ( /sos/dec06/articles/cubasetech_1206.htm) and September 2008 ( /sos/sep08/articles/cubasetech_0908.htm).
#ABSYNTH 5 MULTIPLE MIDI TRACKS UPDATE#
but Cubase 5 provided us with exactly that feature, and there have been further refinements in the latest free update to v5.5.
The inability of Cubase to export multiple audio channels at once - in other words to 'batch export' - used to be a huge source of frustration for many users. The batch export function is found in the same location as the Audio Mixdown options in previous versions of Cubase.