This is probably a pretty basic question for most of you but I need help on saving a project as stems. I am having some songs mixed by a third party and has asked me to send him the stems. I know what stems are but I don't know how to save a project as stems. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Joe

Export all of the tracks as separate .wav files.
If you need fx that you have on the individual tracks, you will need to bounce them down to individual audio tracks before exporting the wav. How you have set up busses can mean sending different things go be mixed - but stems generally means the raw tracks or the collection of  tracks that you have bounced (like 4 drum tracks down to 2) down to tracks.
You and the person you have mixing should be clear about how the project is set up.
 
Brian

Oh this is not nearly as easy as I expected. I thought here was a simple option to export stems and that would export every track with or without the effects based upon your selections. I am certain an earlier version of sonar (5 possibly) offered that. Seriously, as nice as sonar is, you would think there would be an easier solution. Regardless, Brian i appreciate your response.

Actually, exporting is easy - I was giving you more than what you needed I think. Select the tracks you want to export, select export then choose the options that fit your need. If you already have your tracks set up as stems, ignore my last post!
 
Brian

Brian,

Maybe I am confused. To me, stems mean each individual track exported as an individual .wav file. Therefore, I was thinking that X3D, just like Sonar 5, could simply take a project and export all of the tracks with a single selection. In other words, in sonar 5, if a project consists of 50 tracks, the user would not have to export 50 individual tracks one at a time.

Is my definition of stems inaccurate?

Thanks for your time and help.

Joe

I imported a project done in Cubase from another studio in as OMF and it worked flawlessly.  You might try the OMF export (menu item under "export") as an alternative to stems.  Caveat: never tried it myself.
 
CAF

This is easily done in every version of Sonar. Go to File, Export, Audio. The dialog box has many options, including exporting a file for each track or each bus, with or without effects.

The term to me means tracks grouped together of like type. If I'm not mistaken its a term that comes from the movie industry for handling dialog, FX and music. In audio you would want the guitars grouped together and the drums and the vocals and so forth. The way to do this is use buses. You just export the buses as independent wave files. 

Usually when I transport stems (for Danny or whoever):
1) Vocals
2) Instruments
3) Guitars
4) Bass Guitar
5) Drums
 
Stems are whatever group you/I like to make.
 
For me, personally, its easier to group them within the project as 'folders' and "S" [Solo] the folder out (which keeps their respective busses solo'd) ... to export it as a stem
 
Of course, the 'master' (top-final) buss has no *mastering effects in the fx bin during export.  Your third party probably prefers some headroom in each, like -3 dBs, I dunno.

John
The term to me means tracks grouped together of like type. If I'm not mistaken its a term that comes from the movie industry for handling dialog, FX and music. In audio you would want the guitars grouped together and the drums and the vocals and so forth. The way to do this is use buses. You just export the buses as independent wave files. 

+1  Like a lot of terms, there is some variation, but most of the time I hear it, this is what it refers to.