Do you know all there is to know about Audio Rendering? Have you ever wonder what Dither really does?It´s funny but we´re sure there are plenty of incredibly talented Producers and Engineers that are able to make great sounding music but doesn’t know the first thing about Dither. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation out there on this matter. It’s much more difficult than it should be to figure out what Dither really is if you should use it, and why.The truth is that there is nothing fun about the technicalities of digital audio, sample rates, bit rates, bit depth, file formats, truncating bits, zeros, ones and the rest of all those terms and definitions. However, with a 24 or 16-bit depth, you can pick from different dithering options when going down to 16/24 bits (it´s always used when you downgrade your sample quality).
Bit Depth: 24 Bit; Dither Options: No Dither! (very important!) Some people argue that converting from 48k (when exporting wav files from your original project to use in your mastering project) down to 44.1 kHz (when you export your final mastered project) may cause some issues as the sample rates aren’t in ratio. Kapha wrote:So the audio that was imported was still 16 bit but my ableton is set to record at 24 Bit. The audio is not being recorded, so do I still have to adjust this parameter down from 24 bit to 16 bit if I am just bouncing with no effects at all other than the fades in the clips?
You can choose from:No dither,Rectangular (even but with more quantization error),Triangular (set by default by Ableton and the safest mode to choose),POW-r 1 (special for quiet recordings, like acoustic guitars, ambient or vocals),POW-r 2 (for even audio clips),and POW-r 3 (great for loud mixes like EDM, hard rock, or any strongly limited genre).Remember you can share with your friends this and every one of our articles on social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest).Also if you have any doubts you can leave them here on the comments below and we´ll get to them as soon as we can. So, as we were saying, if your CPU can handle it always work at a 32-bit floating format, in any DAW you choose. Anyways it's good to know everything you need about Audio Rendering so here is another chart with more information about file sizes in different types of Qualities. For you to have in mind before choosing your audio file type to store your music or Export music.File Sizes for Stereo Digital Audio SettingsBit DepthSample RateBit Rate1 Stereo Minute3 Min Song1644,1001.35 Mbit/sec10.1 MB30.3 MB1648,0001.46 Mbit/sec11.0 MB33 MB2496,0004.39 Mbit/sec33.0 MB99 MBMP3128 k/bit rate0.13 Mbit/sec0.94 MB2.82 MBShare this post.
There is a video I made on how to bounce stems in Ableton Live at the bottom of this post Why would you want to bounce song stems. To share your song project with other people. To transfer your song into a different DAW. To save CPU usage and ram so that your computer is faster – or run your project on a laptop rather then in the studio. To clean up a cluttered and confusing song projects.
To have a good back upWhy do you want to make stems? Depending on your answer, you may want to use different methods of creating stems.For example, I want to bounce song stems to make a less cluttered project I could mix on my laptop. Because of this, I want to keep all the tracks sounding exactly the same. I am not going to remove automation, or turn off effects, or normalize the tracks.If you are sending the project to a mix engineer you may want to delete all of the automation and effects.
It just depends on what you are trying to do I rendered all the tracks to stems, but when I put them in a new project it doesn’t sound the sameYep, this is the exact problem I had and why I have made this tutorial. I had a complicated project I wanted to bounce to stems to make editing easier, but when I imported the stems into a new Ableton project it sounded a lot different then my original mix. Here is why:. I had a lot of group tracks. If you don’t mute the sub group tracks in your new project you will hear all of them. I had effects and automation on the master chainI will delve more into this later in the post, but first lets go through some basics.
Save yourself a new project to make stems withThis way you don’t screw up your old mix if you end up fiddling with stuff. All rendered tracks are done post faderThis means Ableton will render what you hear after all effects, pan, volume, and midi instruments on the track.
In other words, it will take the render at the end of the chain, the very end of the track.Remember it renders Solos, Mutes and AutomationDon’t forget to activate your tracks, make sure their respective track button is green and turn off any soloed tracks. Ableton Renders Solos, Mutes and Automation Make sure you push the “back to arrangement button”For the sake of this tutorial, we don’t want to render session clips. I am just referring to rendering tracks on the arrangement view. Because of this, we want to make sure our session clips are not playing in the background or they will get rendered too.
Just make sure the orange “back to arrangement button” has been clicked and is no longer showing. This means your session clips will not play or be rendered.
Ableton Switch Back to Arrangement ButtonA good method of naming tracks before exporting multiple stemsWhen you export multiple stems using the “All Individual Tracks” export method, it is a good idea to number, sub number and label return tracks. This way when you import them into a new project you know what tracks are sub groups and returns. Usually we all have our tracks named already, but the problem I had, is that I didn’t know which were sub group tracks. I have come up with this way of naming the tracks-.
Regular Track = 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and so on. Main Group Track = 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and so on. Sub Group Track = If the main group track was “3-0” then the sub group tracks would start at “3-1” and keep going “3-2”, “3-3”, “3-4” etc. Return Track = A, B, C and so on followed by the name of the track. For example “A Reverb”, “B Delay” etc. Master = You cant rename the master. If you don’t have more then 12 return tracks it will end up as the last track.
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If you have more than 12 return tracks, you will just have to pluck it out your tracks and drag it to the first or last track.When you drag these tracks into a new project they will be organized by the track number. The sub group tracks will be organized after the main group tracks and will be easy to identify. It will also be easy to see the return tracks. Organized Way To Render Ableton Stems The 4 different ways to bounce tracks in Ableton. Master. All Individual Tracks. Selected Tracks Only.
Particular Single Tracks from The Drop Down MenuExporting Ableton Stems – The 4 Methods What these different render options do. And their limitations. Master. Simple – once stereo or mono file of your master mix buss. All Individual Tracks. Each individual track as its own stem.
Each main group track mix as a single stem. All of the sub group tracks as individual single stem. All of the return tracks as individual s ingle stem. The master buss track as a single individual stem. Selected Tracks Only (Watch out, it has some limitations – See Below). You can select multiple tracks by holding the control key and selecting multiple tracks.
The ones selected and highlighted will be bounced down to individual stems. Unfortunately, you will be unable to select from these different sections at the same time – main tracks, sub group tracks, aux track, master buss track. You can only render from one of those four different sections at a time. I describe more on this below.
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multiple main tracks at once – you will not be able to include aux tracks, sub group, or the master track. If you were to select tracks inside a group track, then close the group track and select other tracks, Ableton would only stem out the main mixed group track, not the sub group tracks. This is because of Ableton’s selection method. If you hold down control and select a few tracks inside a group track, you have to close the group to select tracks outside the group. This causes the mixed main group track to be selected.
Hence only the main group track mix will be stemmed out – not the individual sub group tracks that you selected inside the main group track. multiple sub group tracks inside a one particular group track. You can stem out individual tracks inside a group track using this method, but you can only stem multiple sub group tracks in one particular group per render. multiple return tracks at once.
You can select multiple return tracks per render, but you will not be able to include any other tracks. You will have stem other tracks in a separate render. mater track – you can only do a master track by itself and not include any other tracks. Particular Single Tracks Listed – Easy, choose one track from the drop down list to stem out.Select the amount of time to render.You can do this by clicking and dragging in the project to select and highlight an area. You can also position your loop bar to where you want to render then click it so it highlights the time.
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