loobenfield Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hi. So I've been recording my song in Logic these past few months, slowly realising I don't posses the knowledge, hardware, room etc to mix it properly. I've been talking to some engineers (like guys who own pro studios and have been doing it for 20+ years) and some of them are using windows machines (so no logic). In my fairly limited experience anything to do with windows is slow, dangerous and messy. They're talking about bouncing each audio file (there's almost 2000) to a different format so their machines can read it. Does this sound in any way prudent? It's all audio (no sftware inst). Or should i be looking for someone mac based who can open my files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I'd be suprised if they actually wanted you to bounce each audio file. I would have thought they'd want you to bounce each track to a .wav file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loobenfield Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 oh, ok. How would i do that? The guy I talked to was talking about AAF files I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Oh, ok. I've not worked with AAF or OMF, so maybe someone else could lend their expertise on that point. The old-school fool-proof way of sharing projects is to bounce each track from the very beginning of the song in .wav format. That way, anybody with any audio programme can stick all the files at the start of the first bar and have everything in the right place. No messing about with making sure everything's lined up, just import all the files and start mixing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loobenfield Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Cool that makes sense. I think. So I'd have to bounce my 31 tracks individually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 You can export all tracks as audio files. Use the pencil to draw a little region at the very start of the song if there isn't any audio there already, so that they all start exactly the same place. If you're using aux channels (or if you're not sure of the export as audio files function), see this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3650 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 ...but however you bounce the audio files, you want them to be 24bit .wav, the same sample rate as your project (unless an engineer asks for something different). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 You can export all tracks as audio files. That's File > Export > All Tracks as Audio Files. That's what I'd recommend for you as well, it's more foolproof than AAF, XML, OMF etc... ...but however you bounce the audio files, you want them to be 24bit .wav If the tools used by the engineer support it, 32 bit floating point is an even better choice. However if you're reasonable with your gain staging and levels, 24 bit should be just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Thanks for clarifying, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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