Thanks for your patience this week everyone! I was getting over a cold, and my voice was gone for a while. But I'm back at it! Check back tomorrow and Sunday for new videos as well! In this video, I demonstrate the following: 1. Multitracks vs. Stems -- what's the difference? 2. How to export all tracks as audio files (multitracks). 3. How to use track stacks to export stems. 4. How to manually bounce stems with effects. Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy Timestamps: 0:00 Multitracks vs. Stems 1:54 Sponsor Segment 2:31 Export All Tracks (Multitracks) 9:27 Export Stems with Track Stacks 12:59 Manually Bounce Stems 17:56 Instrumental & Vocal Stems
One tip I have for you, not sure if you know this but there is a way to export all your stems with send effects baked into each stem all in one go with one export. The way to do this is you create aux tracks for your stem prints and route every instrument and track stack to its corresponding stem aux track. I didn't work this out till recently but if you bring the stem aux tracks into the main arrange window and pop midi regions on the aux tracks you can export the aux tracks and everything being sent to it. What this effectively means is you can select all your stem aux tracks and export you stems with the all the send effects baked into each stem with one click, all in one go. The only draw back is every send must be routed to its corresponding instrument stem aux track which can be a bit tedious to organise but if all your sends are already set up and routed where it needs to go on your mix template it's super easy. Has saved me a lot of time bouncing each stem individually. I used to find that process very tedious. Especially when bouncing stems for a 12 track album. I hope that helps.
My favourite channel to learn Logic Pro and it really helps me to learn programming and mixing techniques so thank you so much and I'll keep watching all the videos and also, keep learning about Logic Pro.
A big 'thank you' for all the work you do, perfect in every way. Every video is well made, well narrated, straight to the point, and even when it seems like the subject matter is obvious or basic, there is always something to learn or ponder. Thank you!
I've found the best way for bouncing wet stems is using VCA's in Logic. Because when the project gets so big, sometimes the track mute vs muted regions can become confusing by the end of the project if not properly managed. With VCA's you can just mute/solo everything as needed and all of the sends and routing is correct. If you are side-chaining anything in the project, soloing the VCA doesn't include the side-chain fx, but muting all other VCA's does include the side-chain fx. Maybe this has been fixed with updates, but if using any side-chaining, be sure to triple check you are getting the side-chain fx in your stems. Hope that helps anyone... This all comes from mixing film practice and applying it to my music production templates.
Excellent video. Thanks a lot for this series, it has helped me immensely in getting up to speed with Logic Pro. Is the song "Running Out of Time" used in this video available for streaming? I love it and would like to listen to it in full!
Very useful as always... Crazy that Logic doesn't allow you to automatically export buses together with the other tracks! There's many professional that work with hundreds of tracks and buses... I wonder how do they deal with it: do they export everything manually? 🤔
Great video. I Always just solo and bounce what I need stems wise, as painful as it is, I resent bouncing stems down but it needs done, just wish bounce all individual tracks included everything like sends. I tested the Solo bouncing vs Muting all tracks and bouncing, and side by side I couldn't see or hear any volume or visual audio changes. Is it more like a just in case situation you do that? Cheers for the video :D.
It only affects the signal if the output is overloading, not individual tracks. Basically just normalizes the audio down below 0 dBFS. But yes, definitely better to mix properly and not rely on overload protection.
Maybe you can tell me because AI can't. I'm a guy who started off on C-Lab with Unitor etc and because of latency issues those days, moved to the DM 800 and Roland's other, later hardware multitracker. PC then got better and I tried Logic 4.7. Now I'm on Presonus's Studio One 5 after a stint with Pro Tools in the days they ditched their hardware investors. Studio One 5 has an export feature which serves my newsreading job on a radio station in Africa. The feature is [Export Between Markers]. I can read the news, edit out the fluffs and then, on the same track and timeline, export 4 to 7 stories by using this feature. It's really quick. 2 seconds on my M1. Does Logic have similar? I'll get Logic 11 anyway as I love the session player feature - midi. Very powerful.
I know exactly what feature you're talking about, and unfortunately, no Logic does not have the same feature. I can think of two workarounds in Logic. (1) put all of your individual stories regions on separate tracks, all starting at bar 1. Then go up to File > Export > All tracks as audio files. This will export each track as a separate audio file. (2) If your full news read is all just one dialog track, you could finish your edits, and then join together each story by dragging over the regions and pressing J. Then select all the joined story regions, and go up to Export > Regions as Audio Files. That will export each region as a separate audio file.
very good video. but, there should be a 3rd option. Stem type export per track. Export all tracks with all the FX printed at the same time. What I mean is that, in my particular case, I want to mix and master myself. Therefore I am want all the FXs and sends and everything, to be printed onto each track, but being able to export all at once. Now there is no such thing. Need to export each track individually 1 by 1. Its jsut a bit time consuming for no reason. If there is such a way, please point me please. I'm pretty noob ;_?
Great video! I'm trying to find a way of creating "stems" for mixes that have plugins like a glue compressor > pultech style EQ for a bit of final mix shaping > limiter set to -0.1 Db on the mix buss/stereo out. I don't think there is a way of grabbing the drums, then the synths, and then the vox and bouncing through the mix-out inc plugins and then recombining the bounces and having them sound identical to the original mix. I guess the answer is to not have any processing on the mix buss but that removes useful mix options. Do you have any thoughts on this?
One thing that I never see mentioned in these tutorials: When exporting Track Stems stems...if you have nested stacks within the stack you are printing, Logic will just ignore it. It won't alert you or anything, it will just not be a part of the print. (So if you have a folder of kicks, like you did in your example, and create a track stack for them, but want to print all of your drums as one stem, if its a stack within a stack....Logic isn't going to include it.) Is this a glitch? How are more people not bothered by this? Perhaps I use track stacks organizationally more than most, but I cant be the only one that needs multiple nested track stacks to be included in the print. Why does Logic even allow you to nest track stacks in they're just going to mute them upon export? (This is coming from a recent Ableton user who is trying to navigate all of the idiosyncrasies of Logic, so forgive me if this makes sense to long time users. But I can't seem to understand the...logic...here)
This is great...as usual. I noticed you bring your Aux tracks into the Tracks window at the top and it appears your sends are set to "0" unity and just use the Aux tracks as the fx level control. Why do you have it set up this way versus just leaving the Aux tracks at unity and using the sends for fx level control? Thanks!
In this example it's because the aux track effects are only used on the vocals. Plus, in this mix, there's a bunch of volume automation on the aux tracks throughout the song. If it were a shared effect, I would probably adjust the send level individually for each track that shares the effect.
I'm a bit confused. Many tracks are not starting from beginning, also with some rest in between the parts of the track; so if I export them all like that will they line up as they are in my project on another computer and another DAW? Thanks (Because my mind is bothering me and I'm always putting some silence from beginning and then join all the parts of the track, so they all starts from the beginning. Should I keep on doing that or just as you said is ok?)
If you export the tracks, there's no need to do that. The silence at the front end of each track will make sure that the tracks line up in another DAW when you drag and drop them in. Which is exactly what you want with multi-tracks and stems.
@@MusicTechHelpGuy So it won't be a problem where exactly I'm dropping the files, they will find its place automatically? (apologies for maybe a silly question, but I've tried that and they came in random places depending on where I'm dropping them)
Even after all these videos I just sit there unsure of what to do. Then I'll listen to Electronic music for inspiration and for the "what to modulate" and I just can't even tell what's going on half the time its just too above my head. So I say whatever and continue writing my songs but they fall so sort and I don't know how to fix it so I always end up starting over.
I don't know what your background is, but if you're struggling with putting songs together, you might want to check out a course on the fundamentals of music. Like understanding notes, chords, scales, chord progressions, etc. Even without all of the sound design and mixing, if you have a solid foundation in your music fundamentals, you might have an easier time putting together songs. I have a really old course on this channel called "Music Theory for Producers" but I also have some more structured content on MacProVideo.com. In particular a course called "Music Theory for DAW Musicians". I use mainly the piano roll editor, and almost no notation, so it's great for folks who maybe didn't grow up in a traditional music environment, but want to compose at their DAW. Here's a link to it: www.macprovideo.com/course/music-theory-109-music-theory-for-daw-musicians I should also mention that more than half of my compositions don't go anywhere either. I think most songwriters are like that. They come up with an idea and tool around with it for a while, sometimes years, before it turns into something useable. I've had songs in the past that I've started recording, re-arranged them, change the key, lyrics, melody, etc. Then finally settled on something that works years later. Best of luck.
@@MusicTechHelpGuy Hey Josh, Your reply to AfroSheen, the last paragraph about more than half your compositions not going anywhere? I must be doing alright with mine then. I’ve been tweaking two comps for months now. I hope to get them out there soon. Great video as always! Gianni 👌🏼
Hi, I had a little issue with my Logic and wanted to know if you could help me with that. So, I'm trying to record MIDI percussion, using the native library that comes with Logic, but when I load the "Blocks and Bells Performance" patch, and I load "Sampler" in "Multi output" mode, it doesn't assign the single instruments such as Jamblocks and Cowbells to the right outputs, it all stills coming from the main outputs, I already checked than all the Groups Outputs into Sampler where assigned correctly, but it doesn't seems to work. I found it weird because when I do the exact same process with the "Conga Performance" and "Timbales Performance" patches, it does recognize all the assigned outputs in "Sampler" and it works perfectly, I hope you guys can help me!
I believe Logic only supports exporting 32-bit float AIFF file export. But WAV and AIFF are basically identical, except for the file container. So any situation where you would use a WAV, you can use an AIFF. They are both uncompressed audio files. HOWEVER, if you use the "bounce" function instead of export, you can choose WAV as your format.
