Reference Guide

1600 Dialog box reference
Export Audio dialog
Mix Enables
As default, each of the Mix Enables options is checked, meaning that your mixdown will sound the
same as playback. You can check or uncheck each of the following items to include or exclude them
from your mix:
• Track Mute/Solo. If you check this option, tracks that are currently muted are not mixed down.
Also with this option checked, if any tracks are soloed, only those tracks are included in the
mixdown.
• Bus Mute/Solo. If you check this option, buses that are currently muted are not mixed down.
Also with this option checked, if any buses are soloed, only those bus outputs are included in the
mixdown.
• Track Automation. If you don’t check this option, any volume and pan automation, including
initial volume and pan settings, is ignored when creating the new file(s). The amplitude of the
raw data in the tracks is used, and the pan is C, or centered.
• Clip Automation. If you don’t check this option, any clip automation, including any trim
settings, is ignored when creating the new file(s).
• Bus Automation
• FX Automation
• Track FX. If you don’t check this option, any effects patched into various tracks’ patch points,
including any plug-in synthesizers patched into track fx patch points, are ignored when
creating the new file(s).
• Bus FX. If you don’t check this option any effects in buses are ignored when creating the audio
file.
• Fast Bounce. When checked SONAR exports audio as fast as your computer allows. If
unchecked, SONAR exports audio in realtime. Uncheck this option if you are using a synth that
works only in realtime. This option is checked by default.
• Audible bounce. The Audible bounce option is only available when in real-time bounce mode
(when Fast Bounce is unchecked). When Audible bounce is unchecked, no audio output will be
heard during the bounce process. When in real-time bounce mode (Fast Bounce unchecked) and
Audible bounce is enabled, you can hear the output of the mixdown.
• 64-bit Engine. If you don’t usually run SONAR in 64-bit mode in order to save CPU, you can
turn 64-bit mode on when you export audio by enabling this check box. Remember to turn it off
after you export your audio, if you don’t want to use it during tracking or mixing.
Note: Depending on the gainstages used in the project and the mixdown options selected–such
as bouncing with source category assigned to Tracks, or with mute/solo or automation disabled
in the bounce settings or while freezing tracks–the output may be louder or softer than during
normal playback. Please be sure to turn down the master output level before using real-time
audible bounce under these scenarios to avoid the possibility of speaker damage.