Well that's weird, heh heh....I'm kind of tired, have just been on a fitness forum I frequent, came here, saw this post title and momentarily thought it was something to do with trampolines 

michael japan
If you are getting the message no audio then it is possibly because you only have the tracks highlighted that you want to bounce. You have to also select the synth audio out, not just the midi data tracks.

I only got the "no audio" message when I selected only the drums bus and no audio tracks.
 
I never selected the MIDI tracks.  When I selected the synth audio out tracks, it went through the full bounce operation without any error messages, but the resulting bounced track was silent.  If I freeze the synth before bouncing, then it creates a good bounce file.

I think you should select all the drum MIDI- and audio tracks AND the bus, and select bus as the source.
But I still think there should be no need to use a bus in order to bounce five tracks to one. I doubt that feature had been changed so much in X-series. I've bounced countless times my whole project to one stereo track inside the project. Unfortunately my DAW isn't in working order to be able to brush up my memory, just moved to a new place.
Anyway, selecting both the MIDI- and audio tracks is necessary.

cparmerlee

michael japan
If you are getting the message no audio then it is possibly because you only have the tracks highlighted that you want to bounce. You have to also select the synth audio out, not just the midi data tracks.

I only got the "no audio" message when I selected only the drums bus and no audio tracks.
 
I never selected the MIDI tracks.  When I selected the synth audio out tracks, it went through the full bounce operation without any error messages, but the resulting bounced track was silent.  If I freeze the synth before bouncing, then it creates a good bounce file.

Freezing the synth will create the necessary audio wavs for you, negating the need for a subsequent bounce unless of course you want a stereo submix of just the drums

Bristol_Jonesey
 
Freezing the synth will create the necessary audio wavs for you, negating the need for a subsequent bounce unless of course you want a stereo submix of just the drums

+1


Freezing solves so many issues - can't recommend it enough. I usually freeze a synth with the effects baked in. The fewer synths and effects you have active, the less the cpu load and the everything goes way smoother.

Bristol_Jonesey
 
Freezing the synth will create the necessary audio wavs for you, negating the need for a subsequent bounce unless of course you want a stereo submix of just the drums

+1


Freezing solves so many issues - can't recommend it enough. I usually freeze a synth with the effects baked in. The fewer synths and effects you have active, the less the cpu load and the everything goes way smoother.

Bristol_Jonesey
Freezing the synth will create the necessary audio wavs for you, negating the need for a subsequent bounce unless of course you want a stereo submix of just the drums

Yes, I did want to boil the drums down to one track for simplicity.  Bounce to track works if you have already frozen the tracks you want to bounce.  But it doesn't seem to work on unfrozen tracks.  Maybe that is working as designed, but it sort-of misses the point of bouncing in the first place.

SuperG
Freezing solves so many issues - can't recommend it enough. I usually freeze a synth with the effects baked in.

How do you do that?  When I click the freeze button, there are no options, and I don't think it includes the effects in the frozen WAV.
 
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Never mind.  I found the Freeze Options.

Kalle Rantaaho
I think you should select all the drum MIDI- and audio tracks AND the bus, and select bus as the source.
But I still think there should be no need to use a bus in order to bounce five tracks to one. I doubt that feature had been changed so much in X-series. I've bounced countless times my whole project to one stereo track inside the project. Unfortunately my DAW isn't in working order to be able to brush up my memory, just moved to a new place.
Anyway, selecting both the MIDI- and audio tracks is necessary.

That did the trick.  I had been selecting only the audio output tracks and not the MIDI tracks.  Selecting both gives me exactly what I expected.  Thanks.