General editing Q (vocals, guitars, etc)

Do I bounce to track my raw, dry edited vocals, guitars, etc?
 
For example, I have gone thru all my vocal tracks and edited out the breaths, spaces, etc and have all the various tracks synced up with fade ins / outs so now I have a bunch of clips per track.
 
Is it general practice to bounce these clips to track?
 
I still have, of course, to EQ, instantiate plugins apply envelopes, etc.
 
I am just wondering is there an advantage to a single track over an assemblage of clips. Less CPU, disk mngmt., anything like that?
 
Thanks in advance!

Thanks all, that is really helpful to know there is no pressing need as long as my cpu is holding up.
 
On the vocal tracks for my current project, it is now ~15 clips per track and multiply that by 6 vocal tracks I worried how that might turn out during heavy mixing sessions upcoming this weekend.
 
I probably will bounce to track before archiving the project but, like you say, save the original.
 
Thanks again, much appreciated, it's good to hear from the voice of experience.

Even if they say 64 bit we are really in a 32 bit world as far as most synths and plugins go and you will take a hit on quality from a bounce.

Your confusing bit depth and PC architecture. There 2 different things entirely. There is no such thing in recording in 64bit. sound cards canonyl do 24bit. 32bit is a floating point bit rate, not a fixed point. Too much miss info!

 When you bounce you loose sound quality in many ways if its not done correctly.

You can nail your hand to the wall if you use a nail gun incorrectly. Bouncing is 1000% fine to do. Too much kool aid had been drank and its time to get a sugar detox..  If you don't know how to bounce, then just read a couple sentences in the help file, so you can bounce "properly"
 
CJ

When I bounce a track to "clean it up" it is just as if I had mastered a final mix for just that track alone.
All the Pans, internal data calculations for effects, output gains, meter levels and so on are now a permanent part of that tracks data.
 
Hence I just lost the original and if the bounce was not at a "mastered" quality I would not be able to start fresh again.  Granted the loss is small   IF    I know what I'm doing. 
 
But when I bounce over and over I take hit after hit on the quality.  This is why bouncing should not happen at all.
 
About the 32 bit float:  from my understanding a floating integer is happening within the DAW itself "meaning the daw will not "calculate" a level "clip" within the program itself, however when I bounce the float data will needs to be "converted" back to bit data.  For example:  if my levels "are not at optimum"  I take another hit on the tracks quality "ouch".
 
This all happens If I  bounce > bounce > bounce.
 
I do not bounce unless I have to.  But thats how I do things, you can operate your DAW any way you want your the Boss.  The main thing is that in the end you have that "Big Sound" that makes you proud.