*Sigh* Okay. It's been a rough day here with X2. What the hell happened to "bounce to clips (MIDI only)" in X2? Since my keyboard skills are limited I do a lot of punch-ins for my keyboard tracks. This ends up with a take lane traffic jam with a billion separate tracks, which I need to combine into 1 midi track. In X1, I would highlight the midi clips I wanted to combine, click bounce to clips and in about a half a second, I would have one combined midi clip. When I try that same move now, X2 is mixing down all my AUDIO clips on different tracks as well as the midi clips. I've made sure that nothing but the MIDI clips are highlighted, but X2 wants to combine every audio clip in the project. What magic switch do I have to press to make sure it only combines what I've selected. I need a drink. I figured out what is going on. If I highlight just the midi clips and select "bounce to clips" as soon as it starts, X2 highlights ALL the clips in the project including audio clips and starts bouncing. This is totally different behavior than X1. Is there some new command to bounce MIDI only? Help.

  Okay I figured it out. You used to be able to right click in the track and select bounce to clips. In X2 you have to select it in the track view clip options menu, otherwise everything gets mixed down.

Not sure what you are doing but the right click "bounce to clip" option still exists and certainly doesn't bounce everything down, only the selected clips.

Perhaps you had all clips selected? Even then though bounce to clips won't mix down multiple tracks, only bounce to tracks is capable of that.

Normally you'd select the clips in a track, right click and select 'bounce to clip'. I did note an issue that if you are using take lanes, bouncing midi clips doesnt work very well. Either the midi clips dissappear or end up in another track lane (if you are bouncing midi clips within a track lane). Both cases can be undone with a ctrl-z undo. I ended up having to move the midi clps to a new midi track to get bounce to clips to work correctly.

Daft question time then... Would it not be easier to just hide the take lanes in this case and that would show all of the MIDI clips together on the main track. I would then drag select the clips that I want to be just one clip, right click on one of them and select "bounce to clip" in the pop up menu.

I tried to bounce clips within a lane. Had I collapsed the lanes down, the take lane clips get stacked. I needed to bounce neighboring clips on a single, specific, take lane. I was using take lanes as a way to organize ideas around an outboard synth instead of multiple tracks inside a track folder, all with the same output settings.  It didn't work out too well, because of this issue. :D

Apparently, once you have multiple take lanes on a midi track, bouncing clips gets weird.