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Bouncing Tracks
When you finish editing a certain number of audio tracks, you can conserve
memory and simplify your mix by bouncing (combining) some tracks down to one
or two tracks. You can choose to include any effects and automation in the new
track that are on the tracks that you want to combine, greatly reducing the load on
your CPU.
Let’s bounce, or combine our two percussion tracks together:
1. Make sure no time range is selected by clicking in the Clips pane outside of
any clips.
2. Select the tracks that you want to combine: in this case, Maracas and Congas.
To select multiple tracks, hold down the Ctrl key while you click each track’s
track number. You can also solo tracks instead of selecting them.
3. Click the Snap to Grid button to turn it on (the Snap to Grid setting is still set
to Measure).
4. In the Time Ruler, select measures 18 through 28.
5. Use the Edit-Bounce to Track(s) command to open the Bounce to Track(s)
dialog box.
6. In the Destination field, choose <8> New Track.
7. In the Source Category field, choose Entire Mix.
8. In the Channel Format field, since our two original percussion tracks are in
stereo, choose Stereo. This way we preserve their stereo quality.
9. In the Source Bus(es) field, make sure the name of the sound card that the
relevant tracks use to play back on is highlighted.
10. In the Mix Enables field, make sure everything is checked. By checking the
Track Mute/Solo option, you make sure that SONAR only mixes down the
unmuted tracks. If any tracks are soloed, this option causes SONAR to mix
down only the soloed tracks.
11. Click OK.
SONAR creates a new, stereo track that combines both percussion tracks. Now you
can archive the old percussion tracks so that they don’t consume memory. Do this
by right-clicking each track number and choosing Archive from the popup menu.
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