The simple "instrument track" (a combined midi/soft synth track) feature was introduced in version 7 or 8 of Cakewalk, and yet it STILL can't be bounced to audio.

To this day, you still get the asinine message about "The specified selection did not contain any audio" if you try to bounce an entire instrument track or section of clips thereof.

This is daft.  Why should I have to split each  instrument track into the component tracks (midi and synth tracks) in order to bounce it down to audio (only to rejoin it back into an instrument track) 


If I select all tracks (which are all instrument tracks, btw), Sonar happily bounces everything  to an audio track, so this should not be an issue 4 years into this feature.  Grrrr....


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You could freeze the Synth then clone then copy drag the resulting audio to a new track.  

The net effect is the same, no?

I don't think so - freezing doesn't incorporate the FX when it renders - the cloned copy would not have them rendered in the copied audio track.

I know it is a silly thing, but incredibly annoying that this oversight has lasted this long (I brought it up years ago).  

You select the midi and audio ouput for the VSTi and the time range and then use bounce to new track. Don't get angry, get educated 

Isn't there an option to include track FX in the freeze options dialog?

backwoods


You select the midi and audio ouput for the VSTi and the time range and then use bounce to new track. Don't get angry, get educated 

Yes that is how it works if the two tracks exist  as non-instrument tracks.  My point is that when you select a range of an INSTRUMENT track (where the two are combined into a single track containing the midi track and the synth track) Sonar does NOT let you do this...requiring you to split the Instrument track using the "Split Instrument Track" to make the two parts visible, you then select range for the now-two tracks, and bounce away.

Afterwards you rejoin the tracks.  It basically eliminates much of the utility of this feature they introduced way back when.

yeah, very exhaustive options in the bopunce to new track menu- if you want just the one vsti bounced solo it, and choose master outputs or whatever it's called.

edit: possibly I'm missing the crux of the problem here, sorry about that. It's making my head hurt.

scook


Isn't there an option to include track FX in the freeze options dialog?

There may be, but I usually don't want the whole track - I just want to bounce a section to do some further edits or take the rendered audio clip into some other software for processing, looping, etc. 

I guess, I will add this to the reasons that I do not use instrument tracks. Looked at them when they first came out but stayed with the audio+midi in a folder.

I must be missing something. I just created a simple instrument track using DimPro. Dropped a midi loop in the track. Selected part of the loop. Selected "Bounce to Track(s)" from the Tracks menu. X2a Producer generated a new track with the audio from the selection. Then selected the entire simple instrument track, did the same "Bounce to Track(s)" and it also worked. Haven't looked at simple instrument tracks in a while.