Okay, something I've never understood from Sonar 7 up to X1.

From my experience, you must either have all, or none, of the tracks selected. If you have any individual tracks selected, it'll only do that track. And if that one selected track is an "audio" track component of a soft-synth folder, it won't have any data anyway, so nothing will export. Hope that helps.

wayofmind


Alright. I'm honestly embarrassed that I didn't ask about this a long time ago. But here's the deal.

When it's time to do the final mixdown into that single stereo track, I've always had issues with Sonar. Sometimes I'll have nothing selected and it will render everything. Sometimes I'll have nothing selected and it will refuse to begin to render, asking me to select tracks.

Now, double-clicking one track/folder tab LOOKS like it selects everything, but Sonar almost always misses a track, folder, or clip.

So, ALL this time, I've had to go in and select every track, one by one, watching to make sure all clips turn black with each click. In a giant project this is tedious and obviously unnecessary. I assume I've been missing something or doing something wrong.

So, is there a sure-fire, quick and easy, "bounce all" that I've been missing this whole time? 

1. Edit
2. Select all


THEN DO YOU'RE EXPORT 

you'll never miss selecting a track again 


Best, 

Mooch 

My neverfail method is: 
1-Mute the tracks I don't want in the mix
2-CTRL-A to select all the tracks and clips
3-File-Export-Audio.

Works everytime. 

I've never had problems like the described ones.

In addition to what's been said: Note that clicking the track only selects the clip. You must click the track number to select the track.

Johnny D:
"Is this intentional? I wonder? "

Is what intentional? User errors??

Duplicate... 

By the time I'm exporting my 2-track master, any tracks I don't want in the mix aren't on the screen - they're hidden with the Track Manager, so there's no hassles of having the wrong tracks included.  No hassling with de-selecting some tracks.  Also, all MIDI tracks have already been bounced to audio so I know for positive what things will sound like in the final mix.  There's no way I would trust un-bounced MIDI tracks to be just the way I want them - Plus, there's a ton of audio editing and mixing I want to do with those synth tracks rather than leaving them raw.

I sweep through the time line from right to left, starting at a point where I know the reverb tails are out.  Then I double click the header of any track so all tracks are "highlighted" (black).  I've never had a mix not have exactly what I intended in it. 

--Something not mentioned on this thread is making sure the time line is chosen correctly.  If you just select all, you're likely to have some reverb tails chopped off, since that makes the selection at the literal end of clips.  And if you trust the project to end where you want, it very well may not--the Forum is littered with posts from people asking why there's 10 minutes of silence at the end of their exports.  It's best to make your own selection in the time line, and that's easy when starting at the safe area after the tails are out, and then sweeping left to the top, as described.

Randy B.

eikelbijter
CTRL-A is your friend!

Werd. On big projects I can never figure out if I have something selected, so I always CTRL-A before an export.

On 8.5.3 I ran into a few (quite a few) times when a mix would be missing a particular instrument and I'd have to re-bounce the mix, even with CTRL-A etc. I have note yet seen that with X1, but I still check the entire stereo file out of paranoia.

Shawn,

That issue may be exclusive to your experience.  There are many occasions when I use multiple instrument plugs and FX and do not freeze any of them.  Some instruments are problematic when not doing a real-time bounce, but I have yet to experience an effect or instrument that does not make it into the mix at all.

For the record, I would suggest designing a routine, then sticking to it religiously.  Here's mine for final mix:

1.  Make sure there are no tracks soloed or muted.  If you need to mute a track, archive it.  If the bottom of screen does not say Mute or Solo, that is one less thing that can go wrong.

2.  Create two markers, one called Song Start and the other Song End.  Place them at the appropriate spots in the tune.  Ensure that there is space for any effects trails at the end of the song.

3.  Press CTRL-A

4.  Drop down Markers and select Song Start, click on Set From = Now

5.  Drop down Markers and select Song End, click on Set Thru = Now

THE SELECTED AREA IS WHAT WILL BE EXPORTED.

6.  Do the Export steps required.

If you have ever had a client look at you sideways because his "Final Master" did not include the guitar solo (and assuming you want to stay in business), you will arrive at a method and use it every time.