Does anyone bounce out ableton files into pro-tools?

[Vovin]

I'm wondering how much of a hassle this is. I like to start off creating songs in Ableton because I feel it's the fastest way to get ideas down, but unfortunately it's a 32bit program and only uses 4GB of RAM. I have 16GB of RAM in my system and would love to use a different program that utilizes all of that.

What would you recommend? I thought about constructing songs in ableton with all dry tracks, then flatten it to audio and bounce it into pro-tools, where then I can apply reverb and EQ.

Does anyone follow a similar system?

[Komodovaran]

You can export the individual dry tracks and import them into another DAW for mixing. Lots of people do that.

I don't, because I have no clue how to make music, so I just use Live for everything.

[musick]

... but unfortunately it's a 32bit program and only uses 4GB of RAM. ...

Pro Tools also is a 32 bits application with the same limits.

But of course with 64 bits you make much better sounding music

[Vovin]

Is there no DAW that will utilize 16GB of ram?

[Komodovaran]

Is there no DAW that will utilize 16GB of ram?

I took a project and duplicated the tracks a lot of times. With 170 tracks I'm using 1.5 GB of memory and 50% CPU (2.2 GHz i7 quad-core MBP). You either need a ridiculous amount of tracks or the worst possibly optimized sampler on Earth (..on each track).

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[beats me]

I'm wondering how much of a hassle this is. I like to start off creating songs in Ableton because I feel it's the fastest way to get ideas down, but unfortunately it's a 32bit program and only uses 4GB of RAM. I have 16GB of RAM in my system and would love to use a different program that utilizes all of that.

What would you recommend? I thought about constructing songs in ableton with all dry tracks, then flatten it to audio and bounce it into pro-tools, where then I can apply reverb and EQ.

Does anyone follow a similar system?

Are you experiencing issues with Live's limitations?

[BlackMath]

Rewire Live to Reaper

[synnack]

Most people export from ProTools and import into Ableton Live because the summing bus in Ableton Live is better. It just sounds better.