Virus TI and Live 7: How do YOU render your tracks?

[cenik11]

So, I've finally finished a draft of the first tune I've built using the Virus TI Snow. I went to render the tune as per usual (i.e., export as wave) but of course that didn't work because the Virus does not support offline rendering (the resulting wave was the complete song minus all the sounds coming from the Virus). I'm wondering what you guys believe are the most effective and efficient approaches to rendering a completed track.

The simplest technique I can think of would be to create three new audio channels (since I have the Virus playing three separate sounds) and set the three channels to record each of the three Virus sounds. This particular tune makes use of a number of return channels as well so I guess I will have to do the same thing and create a few audio channels to record the outputs of the return channels. Then, once all the new waves have been created and are available on their own channels, I will turn off (mute) the Virus and return channels and render the entire track as I normally would. I can't test this out at the moment but I think it'll work.

How do you guys typically render your work in Live 7 when using the TI?

Thanks in advance.*



[*posted at tranceaddict.com as well]

[subsky]

I solo the virus channel and resample the output in an audio track, fast and easy..

[aMUSEd]

There is a tutorial on using the Ti with Live on the Ableton site that describes rendering into an audio track and that's what I would do if I used my Ti in Live. I don't though as it's just so much easier to do in other apps like Reaper or Sonar. Really I can't see Ableton can't add a simple realtime render mode to audio export. It's not like the Ti is the only thing that would benefit from it.

[timothyallan]

I create a new muted audio track for each TI channel and click record.