Hi everyone
 
I am wanting to easily create stems of my projects for export to another mix engineer.  I know you can create a .BUN file, but what if the person on the other end doesn't use Sonar?
 
Thanks,
Ken

When I've had to do this I never used a .BUN file, for the reason you state.
 
I've exported OMF files for collaborators to use in Pro Tools. You have to have all the stems start at the same time, most conveniently at time zero.
 
But it's simplest just to export every track as WAV files. The start time constraint still applies, unless you use Broadcast WAV and your collaborator does also. You end up with a whole bunch of wav files in a folder, but it's easy for anyone to just copy them all at once and paste them into a project into any DAW (as far as I know).

Hi. When exporting audio, choose bus (maybe solo the bus) (make a new folder if needed) and export. Repeat with the rest of the buses.
You should now have stems of all your buses.
All the best.

Use buses as your stems. When you export export just the buses without the master buss.

You can create stems as .wav files.  Mix down the tracks to buses and export the buses out as .wav stems
 
Five is a good number to work with and a typical breakdown for would be something like:
 
 
Sub-mix 1: Drums
Sub-mix 2: Vocals
Sub-mix 3: Bass
Sub-mix 4: Lead guitars
Sub-mix 5: Everything else
 
Just think about what the key groups in your mix are and make these your stems.
 
 
 

OK, thanks, but everyone except for vanceen said the exact same thing.
 
I know how to make submixes, and how to export at the bus level.  It seems that based on the responses, everyone wants to just mix at the submix (aka bus) level.
 
My question, however, was more geared to whether there was an easy way to export every individual track in a mix as one process.  I do not want my mix engineer working at the bus level; rather the individual track level.
 
AKA... Is there a way to export all individual track wav files into one folder, with each wav file being each INDIVIDUAL track?  
 
If not, SONAR (Roland) should make this a functional, fundamental, user-level process.

ok...here is what I do and it has worked well for me over many years.  
 
Create a new Sonar file (Save As)  ex:  My Project_mx for stems
Create folders of the tracks that are stemmed together.
Individually Solo the folders and bounce to tracks
Make another new file  (Save As) ex:  My Project_stems
Delete all tracks except the newly created bounced  tracks
Go to  Process>Apply Effect>Remove Silence-- (be careful not to cut off any soft sounds)
Export an OMF that includes the following:
   embed audio
   Split Stereo tracks into dual mono
  
 
That OMF should import fine into Pro Tools with all your audio stems in the right place.  The remove silence will make your OMF file smaller, but is not a necessary step.
 

If you select tracks in the export dialog Sonar will export individual tracks all starting at time zero.

File - Export - Audio - 
In the bottom left of the screen there is a bounce settings/source category box.  The default is "entire mix".  However there is a drop down box there where you can select "tracks". from there you can select which tracks to export.  

kblackwell72
Hi everyone
I am wanting to easily create stems of my projects for export to another mix engineer.

 

kblackwell72
OK, thanks, but everyone except for vanceen said the exact same thing. 
I know how to make submixes, and how to export at the bus level.  It seems that based on the responses, everyone wants to just mix at the submix (aka bus) level.

 
I'm not trying to be mean here. I just want to point out why you got the results you got from your question.
You asked for "stems" in your top post. Everyone proceeded to tell you how to obtain "stems".
A "stem" is a submix. The usual way to make a "stem" is to export the buss.
 
See this wiki link about what a "stem" is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_%28audio%29