kblackwell72
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

Kblackwell,
 
We gave you what you asked for.  Not being smart or anything, however, if you re-read your post, what did you expect from the forum?  If you would of said individual files or or export tracks instead of stems, you would have received an appropriate answer.
 
just to let you know what a stem is.
 
Stem-mixing is a method of mixing audio material based on creating groups of audio tracks and processing them separately prior to combining them into a final master mix. Stems are also sometimes referred to as submixes, subgroups, or busses.
 
 

Ok, not trying to be disrespectful or anything.  As my old boss says, "Communication is the hardest part of the game"
 
Thanks to everyone for the input.
 
 

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.
 
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.

We gave you an answer based on your question. You specifically use the term stems. It has a meaning. Stems are sub mixes. 

Kblackwell72
 
No problem we are all trying to help one another here.

Well I guess its now well understood. LOL

Not only understood but I learned two things thru this misunderstanding. How to export tracks and how to export stems. Thanks. No, really. Thanks!

Just a heads up, if you do simply export each .wav, (which is the best way to export raw tracks imo) select all your individual clips on each track if you have edited, drag the start of the first clip of each track to 0 and then bounce each track to one clip.  Then export each clip, one at a time to your preferred file type.

It is time consuming to do it this way and possibly something the bakers might look at creating a "batched" way to do in the future as cross-platform collaboration is a necessary evil these days.

SimpleM
Just a heads up, if you do simply export each .wav, (which is the best way to export raw tracks imo) select all your individual clips on each track if you have edited, drag the start of the first clip of each track to 0 and then bounce each track to one clip.  Then export each clip, one at a time to your preferred file type.

It is time consuming to do it this way and possibly something the bakers might look at creating a "batched" way to do in the future as cross-platform collaboration is a necessary evil these days.

They already do, see Mudgetl's post above - "If you select tracks in the export dialog Sonar will export individual tracks all starting at time zero." I also use this as "future proof" backup for projects by converting all tracks into individual audio files that all start at 0. 
 
Also note that SONAR can now export clips and if they're time-stamped Broadcast WAV Files, they'll load right into a collaborator's timeline if their program supports BWF import.

Yes, I've been doing that myself to export full projects so I can test out Mixbus. Sonar makes it easy. 

Well here's a question:
Why would anyone want to mix stems instead of individual tracks?
I understand that in the old days it might have been necessary with limited hardware, but is there a reason to do it now?