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Old 03-04-2021, 11:59 AM   #1
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Default Rendering out Stems with multiple BPM areas

Hello all,

I've been recording a few songs with lots of instruments and we're at around 27 tracks now and we've got several areas in the song that go between 110BPM and 118BPM. Actually we have two that are like that now. And we've come pretty near the finish on one and I'm planning on creating stems for it that I'll take to the studio I've been using to have them do the final mixing and mastering for our next album. Now most the time I'd create the stems using the consolidate/export function under the "File" menu heading. And it's worked out fine for the folks at the studio. But with different time zones in this piece and the other one I simply am ignorant if it will work out on these two songs/projects as easily as it did for my past work.


I am hoping there is someone there in the forum that has done something like this before that can head me in the right direction. Thanks.
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Old 03-04-2021, 12:49 PM   #2
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The audio content of your tracks and any tempo any of it is recorded at has absolutely no bearing on delivering stems. (Mix stems or raw stems.) Just make sure all tracks have a common starting point.

The mix engineer will drag/drop those stems into their mix session and go to it. They're not interested in what bpm something was performed at. It's just mixing to make it sound right at this point.

Same answer if you were exchanging tracks with someone while working on a piece. Once the initial recording is made - recorded to a click apparently in this example - your timebase is now the recording itself.
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Old 03-04-2021, 01:04 PM   #3
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- your timebase is now the recording itself.
Duh....I can't believe I didn't think of it in that way.
But thanks for being kind about it, really!
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Old 03-04-2021, 01:16 PM   #4
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Duh....I can't believe I didn't think of it in that way.
But thanks for being kind about it, really!
Haha, no problem!

For whatever reason, everyone at first tries to do this the other way around just like you did as though a bpm is some kind of anchor. Probably seems intuitive.

In reality, doing that introduces the need to keep multiple grid/click/bpm timebase functions in sync. That's the harder road.
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