Mixing down to wavs

I'm using Logic Express 7.0.1 and need to extract component tracks of a piece I've written in 48khz/24bit wav files. I'd be grateful for some advice on how to do this.
Many thanks,
Stephen.

Hi,
I don't know if it's the same in Logic 7 as in Logic 8, but i would do this by using the bin, selecting the audio files there and converting them to the desired format.
But if you need to do a mixdown of certain tracks, you could use the good old method of routing the output of the track to a BUS instead of the main outputs. Then, create a new audio track and select this BUS as input to record the results onto the new audio track. By this, you'll create a new audio file which then can be exported & converted to the desired format.
Also try if you can switch your entire project to 48kHz / 24bit or if this will cause problems. It will make things easier if the recorded audio files are already in the format they should be.
Fox

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Is it possible to mix down to a wav file

I only seem to be able to mix to an mp3.
Thanks.

dora jar wrote:
Is it possible to mix down to a wav file
no, you have to convert the export:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#converttowav
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
(uncompressed would be best)

Startling error messages when trying to bounce my final mixes down.

Friends, Im nervous about this one as I've logged in 100+ hours and dropped a little bit of $ for off-site recording.
When Im ready to "send songs to disk", an error message pops up saying "GarageBand found 2 audio files in 8-bit format" "This format is unsupported and can not be played back" with an OK" option. After pressing OK, it proceeds to mix down but saves nowehere on my comp (or drive).
After restarting and trying to reopen the session, Im given this error message: "This file type is not supported and gives me the truly horrible option of "abort". Then it gives me the error message again.
It then gives me the original error message once more: "GarageBand found 2 audio files in 8-bit format" "This format is unsupported and can not be played back" with an OK" option. After I press it, it gives me that same message again for good measure and now the session is up.
But I cant save it and I cant send a mix anywhere. So Im pretty screwed?
We did a little off-site recording and imported those files Sunday, but Ive been working on it for a few days before these glitches came through.
HELP!
Im on a brand new MacBook OSX10.9 with Garage Band !! 6.0.5

Thank you, Leonie for replying.
So I went to the contents of the file and took the problem files out.
It immediatley pops up a error saying that a track was not found. "Audio File "guiro.wav" not found"
Obviously, since the track for guiro is still there.
But as I tried to move on, I still got a ""GarageBand found 1 audio file in 8-bit format" before I could get to the session and start deleting them.
As I began doing just that, that same ol' error message popped up fpr every move and then when I finished, it still wouldnt save anything saying..."The document 'SongFour.band' could not be saved.

Is it possible to take a mixed and bounced wav and convert it back into the original individual aiff separate tracks?

Hello. Is it possible to take a song that has been bounced down to a .wav and is now in itunes, and import it back into logic but as the original seperate tracks that make up the bounced .wav? I have some songs I recorded when I first started using Logic, and the mix and mastering is horrible. I have gotten way better since then and I would like to remix and re-master some of these tracks. Only trouble is I no longer have the original seperate track Logic Aiff files. I know I can obviously import the bounced down stereo .wav file and remaster that,but it would be really cool if Logic had some way of recalling the song back into its seperate tracks. Is there any way at all to do this? If Logic can't do this maybe there is an app out there that can?
Even though I just downloaded Logi X I also decided to keep Logic 9. So I can run both if that helps.
Thanks,
Mike

That would be like mixing a cake batter and deciding you wanted to start over using the same ingredients, separating the eggs, milk, baking powder, baking soda, flour...etc, back into their original form.
Can't be done... the instruments share the same frequency ranges. There is sofware that let's some adjustment to pitch be done but trying to pull out individual instrument/vocal tracks from a mix would leave you with very, very inferior tracks to re-mix with.

Problems Exporting multiple tracks / Mix down - Big Probs!

Hi Guys,
I apologise for the large holes in my knowledge in advance.
I have asked a similar question before but I got a screen grab that does not appear in my version of STP (I use Version 2.0 I think, apologies, I am at work so can't be totally sure)
I have created a 30 minute project that goes accross 3 tracks with various bits of cut audio.
If I wan't to create one single MP3 of the whole piece I really struggle. The Option to create 'MP3' is greyed out, and the only option that creates the seems to create the single 'submix' file, is the option to export all tracks, buses and submixes etc.
When I go to open the WAV though it crashes, it also doesn't list a duration (which i think is why it is crashing).
I managed to export it at all using the lowest rates in the export menu but when I open the submix wav, it plays it full mixdown correctly but with about 8 empty tracks(?) in the main edit / playing window (not the session style window with all the tracks, buses etc)
I then can't convert the wav to an Mp3 (perhaps because it is not a standard wav) which means curtains for my podcast at present.
I am so sorry for the drivel that I have just written, If it does make sense I would be so glad if you could help me out.
How best to Mix Down my project?
Many thanks.
Dave.

Hi there,
My bad, the master mix was there, it is at the top but seperate so i must have missed it or thought it was the title of the menu, anyway, thanks for your help on that one.
The surround sound issue still bugs me but I changed the setting in 'Multitrack' and it seemed to work, as for the submix track, i see that at the bottom of the project (along with busses?) and there doesn't appear to be any sound file in there, i'll take another look and see if the settings need changing.
Thanks so much for your help as it was really doing my head in (along with the random crashes and slight movements in levels that I didn't touch)
It's fixed now so thank you very much indeed!!!
Here is the file if you wanna listen to it (shamelss plug), it;s a bit weird.
http://thehorncast.blogspot.com/
Dave

Can I mix down to 32 bit at a higher sample rate than 44.1 kHz ?

When I use Ableton Live, it lets me choose 16, 24, or 32 bit, and then I can choose a sample rate all the way up to 192000. Is this possible in Audition ? I have been going through all the preferences and all the tabs and I can't find this option. All I find is a convert option, or the adjust option. But that's not what I want. I want to mix down this way.
The closest thing I found is when I go to "Export Audio Mix Down", I can select 32 bit. Then there is a box for sample rate, with all the different values. But it won't allow me to change it from 44100.

JimMcMahon85 wrote:
Can someone explain this process in laymens terms:
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/OzoneDitheringGuide.pdf ---> specifically Section: VIII "Don't believe the hype"
I don't read graphs well, can someone put in laymens terms how to do this test, step by step, and where do i get a pure sinewave to import into audition in the first place??
UNbelievable: So I have to first run visual tests using a sinewave to make sure dither is working properly, then do listening tests with different types of dither to hear which I like best on my source material, and then for different source material it's best to use different types of dither techniques???... Am I getting this right???...
Hmm... you only need to run tests and do all that crap if you are completely paranoid. Visual tests prove nothing in terms of what you want to put on a CD - unless it's test tones, of course. For the vast majority of use, any form of dither at all is so much better than no dither that it simply doesn't matter. At the extreme risk of upsetting the vast majority of users, I'd say that dither is more critical if you are reproducing wide dynamic range acoustic material than anything produced synthetically in a studio - simply because the extremely compressed nature of most commercial music means that even the reverb tails drop off into noise before you get to the dither level. And that's one of the main points really - if the noise floor of your recording is at, say, -80dB then you simply won't be hearing the effects of dither, whatever form it takes - because that noise is doing the dithering for you. So you'd only ever hear the effect of LSB dither (what MBIT+, etc. does) when you do a fade to the 16-bit absolute zero at the end of your track.
Second point: you cannot dither a 32-bit Floating Point recording, under any circumstances at all. You can only dither a recording if it's stored in an integer-based format - like the 16-bit files that go on a CD. Technically then, you can dither a 24-bit recording - although there wouldn't be any point, because the dither would be at a level which was impossible to reproduce on real-world electronics - which would promptly swamp the entire effect you were listening for with its own noise anyway. Bottom line - the only signals you need to dither are the 16-bit ones on the file you use for creating CD copies. And you should only dither once - hence the seemingly strange instructions in the Ozone guide about turning off the Audition dither when you save the converted copy. The basic idea is that you apply the dither to the 32-bit file during the truncation process - and that's dithered the file (albeit 'virtually') just the once. Now if you do the final file conversion in Audition, you need to make sure the dithering is turned off during the process, otherwise all the good work that Ozone did is undone. What you need to do is to transfer the Ozone dithering at the 16-bit level directly to a 16-bit file proper, without anything else interfering with it at all. So what you do with Ozone is to do the dithering to your master file, and save that as something else - don't leave the master file like that at all. After saving it, undo the changes to the original, in fact - otherwise it's effectively not a file you could use to generate a master with a greater-than-16-bit depth from any more, because it will all have been truncated. Small point, but easy to overlook!
just what's the easiest way to test if a simple dithering setting is
working for 32-bit down to 16-bit in Audition?... Why is there no info
about dithering from 32 bit to 16 bit (which is better then dithering
from 24-bit isn't it)?
I hope that the answers to at least some of this are clearer now, but just to reiterate: The easiest way to test if its working is to burn a CD with your material on it, and at the end of a track, turn the volume right up. If it fades away smoothly to absolute zero on a system with lower noise than the CD produces then the dither has worked. If you hear a strange sort-of 'crunchy' noise at the final point, then it hasn't. There is info about the 32 to 16-bit dithering process in the Ozone manual, but you probably didn't understand it, and the reason that there's nothing worth talking about in the Audition manual is because it's pretty useless. Earlier versions of it were better, but Adobe didn't seem to like that too much, so it's been systematically denuded of useful information over the releases. Don't ask me why; I don't know what the official answer to the manual situation is at all, except that manuals are expensive to print, and have also to be compatible with the file format for the help files - which are essentially identical to it.
Part of the answer will undoubtedly be that Audition is a 'professional' product, and that 'professionals' should know all this stuff already, therefore the manual only really has to be a list of available functions, and not how to use them. I don't like that approach very much - there's no baseline definition of what a 'professional' should know (or even how they should behave...), and it's an unrealistic view of the people that use Audition anyway. Many of them would regard themselves as professional journalists, or whatever, but they still have to use the software, despite knowing very little about it technically. For these people, and probably a lot of others, the manual sucks big time.
It's all about educating people in the end - and as you are in the process of discovering, all education causes brain damage - otherwise it hasn't worked.

Error message when mixing down audio

Hi gang
I occasionally get an error message when mixing down audio on a FCP 5.1.4 project. Message sez: File error: the specified is open and in use by this or another application.
I've never seen this before. No other applications are open at the time this message comes up.
thanks for any clarification.
Craig

Thanks for your reply. No . . . and if I try a bit later in the project, it seems to render the audio fine. Maybe I'll just trash my prefs and see what happens.
Craig

Is there a way to mix down your tracks into one so you can have more tracks to use

Is there a way to mix down your tracks into one so you can have more tracks to use

Here is my tutorial to bounce tracks
http://ipad.slapwagon.co.uk/
some quality is lost due to export compression, but it's bareable considering you don't need to connect to a pc or use itunes...
cheers
@zorin

Why when mixing down video, audio gets panned to left?

I don't know why it happens. I've checked and it's not panned at all before the mix down/render. Any help?

I think it figured it out. If you're doing a stereo project but have the project set to Surround it will mix down with an odd pan to the left. Just an FYI.
I fixed the project properties and now it mixed down with no pan.

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I am ready to out put my project which has multiple video layers. I know I can nest my effect layers but is there a way to mix down all of my layers making one video layer with all of the effects rendered?

Then there's still no need to "mixdown" the video.
For DVD, the best method is to export a self-contained or reference movie (File->Export->QuickTime Movie). Note that if your Sequence isn't already fully rendered, it may take some time. Also make sure you include chapter markers if needed and that you do NOT recompress all frames.
Use the QuickTime Movie in Compressor and choose the appropriate DVD preset.
Once Compressor is done, import the resulting .m2v video file and the .ac3 audio file into DVD-SP for authoring and burning.
For going to tape, fully render the Timeline then then perform a 'Print-to-Video' or just hit record on your DV recorder and hit the space bar on your Mac keyboard (assuming you're working in DV).
-DH

Mixing down

I would like to know what do you guys beleive is better to mix down on my Motu HD192 or logic pro.
Also I have a huge midi issue, I have my Fantom X7 connected to my G5 via midi. I have a motu HD192 that I'm using as my sound card interface. Using my roland I can play and hear all the plug-ins within logic no problem, EXS24 Ultrabeat.... etc. However when I try to play and hear the sounds coming from my Roland, either I hear nothing at all; or I hear the sounds just fine, but when I try to play another instrument, on a different track I still hear the sounds coming out of my Roland.
I know it's something I'm overlooking I tried the ports and click, I tried to midi it all failed. If you guys can help I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
E

I would like to know what do you guys beleive is
better to mix down on my Motu HD192 or logic pro.
Try both. See what sounds better to you.
Also I have a huge midi issue, I have my Fantom X7
connected to my G5 via midi. I have a motu HD192
that I'm using as my sound card interface. Using my
roland I can play and hear all the plug-ins within
logic no problem, EXS24 Ultrabeat.... etc. However
when I try to play and hear the sounds coming from
my Roland, either I hear nothing at all; or I hear
the sounds just fine, but when I try to play another
instrument, on a different track I still hear the
sounds coming out of my Roland.
I know it's something I'm overlooking I tried the
ports and click, I tried to midi it all failed. If
you guys can help I would really appreciate it.
See this thread, it may help you.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=339514&tstart=45

Mixing down tracks within a GB project

Hi Guys. Here's a question that I cannot work out (perhaps because it's not possible??)
How do you mix down 3 or 4 tracks into one, as we used to do in the days analogue mixing. eg, I have a nearly completed project, but decide to add a string quartet composed on 4 tracks - one for each instrument, but would like to mix it down to one track to make it easier to move/copy etc
Regards
Iain
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Make sure to keep a copy of your orchestral GarageBand project. You may not be happy with the mix when everything is completed.
There should be no reason to mix down the tracks, however. GarageBand 3 will automatically make a Software track into a Real track by just "locking" the track. This will save you CPU cycles if this is an issue. That way you will still have control over the mix parameters.

Itunes mix down file too big?

Greetings from the bayou,
I am trying to e-mail a band mate a mix of a song from GB in itunes. I didn't notice this before, but the file is 24.3 MB. Is there a way/program or a setting in itunes to compress these files to meet my 10MB limit. Also, I would like to give some direction on the other end for him to open it in windows/itunes if possible. Should I store these songs in such a large file format for that matter? Mix down to itunes then transfer to smaller file size, then delete large files...
Thanks for your time,
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Powerbook G4 15" 1.67 1GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.4) PreSonus FirePod, icontrol, Maxtor 200GB-HD

Is there a way/program or a
setting in itunes to compress these files to meet my 10MB limit.
http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#converttomp3
Should I store these
songs in such a large file format for that matter?
That's up to you. The uncompressed AIFF files are of the highest quality, but you can always make another mixdown from the GB file if you want to.
--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-|>

Why am i getting error -43 after mix down on audio recording?

why am i getting error -43 after mix down on audio recording?

to where are you trying to mix down the file? a -43 is a file not found error

Audio And Visual Mix Down? (not export)

I was just wondering if a user can MIX DOWN the audio and video without exportng the video and reloading it back into the project...
Also if anyone can tell me if the scale rulers are of any use besides using them as a marker, for instance maybe controlling playback within a certain range??? Forgive my loose terminology.

Certainly!
When you say mix-down, to you mean raising the volume level in some places and lowering it in others? That's done using audio keyframes.
Audio keyframing can be done right on the timeline. Just select a clip and position the CTI playhead over it, then click the Make Keyframe button on the track header, to the left of the audio track. This will create a keyframe point at the position of the CTI. Raising this point will increase the volume and lowering it will decrease it. You can create and position as many keyframes as you need to mix your audio tracks.
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(I see you've ordered my books, Carlton! Good for you! These and many other topics are covered pretty thoroughly in them.)

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