Transients
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Hi
When composing cinematic orchestral music with kontakt sample libraries and a huge number of kontakt instances and instrument tracks with midi note information.
How do you guys prepare a song for mixing?
When the composing part is finished and its time to start mixing the song, everything kind of halts because im not sure whether i should bounce everything to audio before i start the mixing process. As a composer id like to keep everything as instrument tracks with midi note information, but as an audio engineer id like work with audio files when mixing. So maybe it would be best to have two separate projects of the same song. One song with instrument tracks (for editing/composing) and another with audio tracks only (for mixing purpose). Which gives a clean slate for the mixing process.
I know its a personal preference and daw dependant workflow thing, but would be nice to get some ideas and share some thoughts on this. I know i can bounce instrument tracks to audio along the way, but things tend to end up as a big mess of tracks with a combination of instrument and audio tracks which makes me loose concentration and overview of the song. So im just curious how you handle this. Not many tutorials covering this topic. So to wrap it up in a couple of questions:
1. Do you think its necessary or is there any advantages to bounce all instrument tracks to audio before mixing?
2. Is anyone having two copies of the same song (one with instrument tracks and one with audio tracks)? Or is it just me overcomplicating?
Thanks for reading.
When composing cinematic orchestral music with kontakt sample libraries and a huge number of kontakt instances and instrument tracks with midi note information.
How do you guys prepare a song for mixing?
When the composing part is finished and its time to start mixing the song, everything kind of halts because im not sure whether i should bounce everything to audio before i start the mixing process. As a composer id like to keep everything as instrument tracks with midi note information, but as an audio engineer id like work with audio files when mixing. So maybe it would be best to have two separate projects of the same song. One song with instrument tracks (for editing/composing) and another with audio tracks only (for mixing purpose). Which gives a clean slate for the mixing process.
I know its a personal preference and daw dependant workflow thing, but would be nice to get some ideas and share some thoughts on this. I know i can bounce instrument tracks to audio along the way, but things tend to end up as a big mess of tracks with a combination of instrument and audio tracks which makes me loose concentration and overview of the song. So im just curious how you handle this. Not many tutorials covering this topic. So to wrap it up in a couple of questions:
1. Do you think its necessary or is there any advantages to bounce all instrument tracks to audio before mixing?
2. Is anyone having two copies of the same song (one with instrument tracks and one with audio tracks)? Or is it just me overcomplicating?
Thanks for reading.