Exporting track stacks as individual stems

Hello


I am wondering about the export functionality of track stacks in Logic Pro X.


Occasionally I will use track stacks combining several things to create the illusion of one instrument, in which case just exporting the track stack as one stem is perfectly fine. More often however I use track stacks for bus processing for drums, groups of backup vocals, etc, and when I am exporting stems to someone else I wish for each individual track (for example the hi-hat, snare, kick, etc INDIVIDUALLY) to retain all the same processing as the track stack.


As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this. The workaround of course is to bounce the session while soloing each track, which is 1 extremely tedious and 2 not effective if there are threshold based effects such as a compressor on the track stack because the effects will not react and sound the same when only one of the sounds in the track stack is being fed into them.


Am I missing something here? This seems like a flaw in the design of the function and I find it hard to believe after all these years of track stacks existing there is no way to properly export them

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 09:19 AM

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Aug 30, 2022 04:34 PM in response to jackbobley

Like you already wrote, the track stack is a kind of a bus. And the reason you have compression or any other dynamic insert on a bus rather than on an individual tracks is the interaction of the summed tracks.


It's not a flaw in the design of the function, maybe a flaw in the imagination of the reality. There might be solutions that I don't know, but let think by yourself. How would you approach this theoretically?



there is no way to properly export them

The way I export Track Stacks is to provide both the sum track, which is the track taken by a mix engineer in most cases, and the single tracks just in case. The reason I use track stacks is that I like the sound to be treated in just that way. And if a mixing engineer has the time, capacity and will to use the single tracks, he could do so and try a better solution.

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