Exporting audio

[T-Train]

I'm rather new at this so this may be a somewhat stupid question, but how would I go about exporting one single audio clip? I've tried a couple times just now and when I finish exporting the file has no sound to it. I'm sure there's some easy step I'm missing.

Also I've heard of this before, but is it a sensible practice to say, export an audio clip and bring it into another program to help master it?

As I said I'm new at this so if I sound like I'm just saying nonsense over here, forgive me hehehe.

[buzby]

working from the arrangement (shortcuts for mac)

- select clip and place a loop brace around it (shift - cmd - l)
- select render (shift - cmd - r)
- in the rendered track menu select the track which the clip is in
- make other selections which want from the menu ie. aiff, wav etc etc
- press ok and select your rendered file destination

nothing wrong with putting clips into other DAW's to see what happens with them - different devices (eq's, reverbs etc) will sound a little different be they plug ins or in different daw's etc

[T-Train]

I just tried that and still nothing. It exports the file but when I go to play the file there is no sound.

[buzby]

and the volume is definitely up on the track that you ve selected ?

i know this has happened to me before but i cant remember what my mistake was at the time -

[roothewhirl]

Usually I just go into Arrange View and highlight the track I want. Once it's highlighted it will be orange. Then go up and just export the audio. That should work.

-Ryan

[T-Train]

Yeah the volume is definitely up. Do I need to record enable the track? Or would the dither options have anything to do with that?

[T-Train]

Usually I just go into Arrange View and highlight the track I want. Once it's highlighted it will be orange. Then go up and just export the audio. That should work.

-Ryan

Back when I had the 30 day licence for the demo, before I got the full version, That's how I did it....but I was exporting all the tracks not just one clip...I dunno? hehe...

[buzby]

Yeah the volume is definitely up. Do I need to record enable the track? Or would the dither options have anything to do with that?

you dont need the record button armed and dithering is something that you do at the final stages of mastering a track -

is the track activation button on?

[T-Train]

What exactly do you mean by the track activation button?

[buzby]

they are the big square yellow buttons with the track number on situated underneath the panning rotary and above the cue/solo button in lives mixer

if this is switched off then the tracks output is muted

[T-Train]

Oh, no that's activated. The track isn't muted in any way. Master volume's up, track volume's up. All that checks out.

[buzby]

mmmm

ok - what are the inputs and outputs set to on the mixer - ?

if "no input" is selected on the "audio from" then the audio will not render - dont ask me why but i ve tried reproducing your problem and this is what happens here

the output on the track should be set to master, even if you are choosing to render a track (lets say audio 1) from the render menu - so ,, if the output is set to "sends only" and it is nt actually being routed in to another track then the audio will not render

have you read the section on exporting audio in the manual - maybe there is something there which we are both overlooking -

hope this helps - cant think of anything else at the moment

[T-Train]

The output is routed to the master track. I tried exporting just that single clip but in the menu where you choose the export preferences I set it to the master instead of the track which the clip was from. That worked out fine. I'm gonna go back through the manual and see if I can't spot anything I could have missed and if you figure anything out that would be boss. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out with this, dude. Much appreciated.

[T-Train]

In the session view. damn.....I'm an idiot. You just completely solved my problem.

hehehe thanks!

[T-Train]

Thanks a lot man! I appreciate the help alot....things that seem so complicated are usually so simple hehehe.

But another question I kind of just thought of because of something buzby said...

if the output is set to "sends only" and it is not actually being routed in to another track then the audio will not render

Would that mean that if I had a sidechain track set up, meaning that it was just an empty track save for one clip with a kick waveform set to "sends only" to do the ducking (y'all probably already knew what that was but I just wanted to be clear), and I recorded the song into the arrangement with the ducking going on....after I render it will the ducked sound still be there or will it render as if there was no sidechain?

Or does what he said just mean that if I tried to render the sidechain track it would be silent?