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IMPORTING AND EXPORTING AUDIO
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D Select “Audio Files on Disk” to bounce the Mixer Channels to audio files on disk.
When “Audio Files on Disk” is selected, the "Mute Original Channels" option in the dialog is automatically disabled.
Choose File Type, Sample Rate, Bit Depth and any Dither in the “File Format” section.
Clicking OK will bring up a Save dialog which allows you to select a folder, or create a new folder. Clicking Save
will then create one audio file per selected Mixer Channel and place in a sub-folder named “Bounced <song
name>”. All audio files will have the file type, sample rate and bit depth as defined in the “File Format” section.
The audio files will get the name of the bounced Mixer Channels, plus the File Type extension. If several selected
Mixer Channels have the same name, an incremental number (starting with "-01") will be automatically added be-
fore the file extension.
The Song Tempo, and any Tempo Automation, is also included in the exported audio files. This means that if you
import the audio files into another Record Song document, they will automatically be stretched to the Song Tempo
of that song.
If "Export Tempo Track (.MID)" is activated, the bounce function will also export a separate MIDI file containing the
Song Tempo, and any Tempo Automation data. The MIDI file will have the name of the song, with the extension
".MID". This MIDI file can then be imported to the tempo automation lane in another Record Song document, or to
the tempo track in another DAW, to automatically set the song tempo and control any tempo automation in the se-
quencer.
! Note that the “Export Tempo Track” option is available only if you have selected “Audio Files on Disk" in the
“Bounce to:” section and “Song” in the “Range to Bounce:” section.
Bouncing Audio Clips
The “Bounce Clip to Disk” function
The “Bounce Clip to Disk” function becomes available when a single Audio Clip is selected (in Arrange Mode or Edit
Mode). The function allows you to bounce single Audio Clips, after the Clip Level and Fades but without the Mixer
Channel settings, to disk for further processing in an external application, for example. Do like this to bounce an audio
clip to disk:
1. Select an Audio Clip and choose “Bounce Clip to Disk...” from the Edit menu or context menu.
The “Bounce Clip As Audio File” dialog appears. It looks the same, and has the same functionality, as the “Export
Song as Audio File” and “Export Loop as Audio File” dialogs.
2. Choose location, File Name and File Format (AIFF or WAV) for the bounced audio clip at the bottom of the di-
alog and click “Save”.
(The default name in the dialog is the Clip name + extension, or (if there's no name label on the clip) the track
name + extension.)
Choose a file name and select file format
3. Select “Sample Rate”, “Bit Depth” (resolution) and “Dither” in the “Export Audio Settings” dialog and click
“OK”:
If you are exporting at 16-bit Bit Depth you will have the option of applying Dither. Dither means that a type of
noise is added to the digital signal to improve low level sound quality when exporting high resolution audio at a
lower bit depth. Record features a new, and very sophisticated, dithering algorithm with noise shaping.