Rendering each separate track individually at the same time in Cubase?

Magnus · #1 11-19-2007, 07:26 PM

I want to render out each track at once into its own wav file, all at the same time. Doing this one by one as it is now would take forever. I came across this utility that does this called MEAP. You can check it out here:

http://www.pendlebury.biz/index.php?categoryid=22

Anyways, this costs money so I was wondering if there is a way to do this for free?

Thanks in advance!

Rambunkcious · #2 11-19-2007, 09:53 PM

Magnus,

Hi, I read about this a couple of years back, its for windows, they have version 1 for free, version 2 costs $19.

http://www.silverspike.com/?Products:TapeIt

Rambunkcious

Medway · #3 11-20-2007, 04:56 AM

Not sure why you need the waves but consider exporting as OMF to import them to another DAW.

Magnus · #4 11-20-2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Medway

Not sure why you need the waves but consider exporting as OMF to import them to another DAW.

Thanks Rambunkcious, I will check that out.

Medway, I'm not sure what an OMF file even is so maybe you could elaborate? What my goal was is to get each track into its own wav file so I could give to the mastering guy because he would like each part of the track to work with. I've always rendered out everything as a wav file so maybe I'm doing it wrong? What is OMF? Thanks in advance!

Medway · #5 11-20-2007, 10:10 PM

OMF stands for open media format, basically it was a way to get projects from other DAWs into Pro Tools. Most support it now for cross platform compatibility. It will generate one large file containing all of your audio and the positions they are to be placed at. I think the newer spec includes volume and pan too.

Inquire with the mastering person to see if they can accept this, they should be able to no problems.

Magnus · #6 11-21-2007, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Medway

OMF stands for open media format, basically it was a way to get projects from other DAWs into Pro Tools. Most support it now for cross platform compatibility. It will generate one large file containing all of your audio and the positions they are to be placed at. I think the newer spec includes volume and pan too.

Inquire with the mastering person to see if they can accept this, they should be able to no problems.

Thanks Medway for that info! So if I understand it right, if the person is using Pro Tools, then an OMF file would give them the ability to manipulate or isolate each part?

Medway · #7 11-21-2007, 03:13 PM

Yes they will have all your audio on separate tracks in the correct positions.

Bitfiend · #8 11-26-2007, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Medway

Yes they will have all your audio on separate tracks in the correct positions.

but it all has to be bounced down to individual audio tracks for OMF export to work; it won't contain plug-in's and MIDI data, correct?

Rambunkcious · #9 11-27-2007, 11:25 AM

It wont export the plug ins, video files, routing, groups or your tempo map, but I dont know about midi, I dont see why it would not export midi, as the files arent that big to start with, plus a midi file will work uniformly accross any system, as compared to a plug in preset or any routing that you might have saved.

Hope that helps.
Rambunkcious

Medway · #10 11-27-2007, 10:16 PM

OMF doesn't do midi (wasn't designed for it as there is an existing solution) but thats fine, you can do a separate midi export along with it.

Btw I've seen a few places that talk about midi being in OMF 2.0 but just to be sure I tried exporting midi from Cubase 4 OMF
back into itself and it didn't get carried over.