Subject:Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? Help!

Posted by: StephenM

Date:6/17/2006 8:36:28 PM

Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File?

The help file in Acid (using Pro 6a) has this listed... but there is no help on this topic. Is this possible?

I have a MIDI file that contains my "drum pattern". I'm using a Multi-VSTi (Fruityloops), and I have each instrument going to a separate soft synth in ACID. I then set each soft synth to it's own bus. When I do a render (with the option to render each track to a separate audio file), I only get one file called "Track 01.wav".

In a nutshell, I want to render each track separately (without having to manually do a "render to new track" for each track in my drums). How can I do this? If I can truly render each bus to a separate file, then I'm good to go... but like I said, the help file is no good on this one.

Any ideas?

Stephen

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? Help!

Reply by: drbam

Date:6/18/2006 5:52:53 AM

My studio system is not on, but I believe this choice is in the "Save As" function. You can choose to save each track (not buss) as a separate file.

drbam

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? Help!

Reply by: StephenM

Date:6/18/2006 7:01:54 AM

Thanks for the reply...

I'm familiar with this function, and it's great when you have multiple tracks in your project... but right now (for a test), I only have 1 track in my project. It is a midi track, that uses fruityloops as a multi-output instrument. So right now, each track in my fruityloops drum track is assigned to a separate "soft synth" in ACID, which allows me to control each invidual track/channel being sent back from Fruity. So while I have one track in my project, I have x amount of tracks coming back from my multi instrument VST, each assigned do it's own soft synth.

If you go into Acid Pro 6a help, there is an entry for "Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File". What I'm trying to discern is... what is that? Why is it in help, and is it possible?

Stephen

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? Help!

Reply by: StephenM

Date:6/19/2006 5:38:24 AM

Any ideas?

Sony... why is this listed in the Help file?

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: jbolley

Date:6/19/2006 10:27:20 AM

The rest of that paragraph in the manual seems to answer both your questions:

>>

Each audio track will be saved to a separate file (MIDI tracks are not rendered). All of the volume adjustments, panning, FX, and events are saved with the track. You can also use this feature to create tracks that you can use in multitrack recording software or in Macromedia Flash.

>>

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: StephenM

Date:6/19/2006 5:31:58 PM

Sorry, the rest of the paragraph is talking about simply rendering EACH TRACK. I'm talking about rendering EACH BUS as a separate track. There is a difference. You can have more than one bus for a track.

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: RMS

Date:6/21/2006 10:59:52 AM

To do each bus seperately (not all at once), just mute all busses and tracks except the ones you want. Goto Tools|Render to new track...(or something like that). Your project, which now only should have the buss you want going to the master, will be rendered.

Hope this helps.
Dan

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: jbolley

Date:6/22/2006 8:03:58 AM

I see what you're saying. In vegas you can render to multiple wav files, this does not seem to be implemented in acid pro 6a.

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: BradlyMusic

Date:6/22/2006 10:45:09 AM

It sounds like the help file may have been copied from Vegas, but the functionality wasn't.

Subject:RE: Rendering Each Bus to a Separate File? He

Reply by: GrupoJyT

Date:6/28/2006 8:24:12 PM

When I need do it, I select 'Solo' bus by bus and render the project.

I have my own version of Kontakt 2 drum instruments, translatted from Battery 2 drum maps and making a layout with multiple outputs in Kontakt, because I need to render each "drum group" in to a single output file.

By example: Hit-hat Open, Closed and Crash combined in to a single BUS and rendered as a single output file, produces a "real feeling Hit-Hat sound"

So I use the solo button to render outputs BUS by BUS.

Best regards