Bouncing Stems Out With Sidechains Printed [Ableton 11]

[edeneye]

Hey y'all, first-time poster, long-time user, and I'm kinda stumped.

I'm trying to bounce out my mix session that has various fairly complex groupings of tracks with tons of sidechaining of elements between groups.

What is the ideal way I bounce out these stems with the return effects printed on each group, as well as all the intergroup sidechaining printing as well for stem mastering?

• If I solo the group and print, the sidechains don't print.

• If I select all my stem groups and print selected tracks, the sidechains don't print.

Legends of these forums, please assist a homie.

[stargazer20]

Hey, don't know if you still need help, but if the sidechain's don't make it to the cut, then the source of the sidechaining is obviously muted when you solo certain groups or tracks. One way to fix this (although it takes some time) is to make sure that all of your sidechain sources are bounced down on their individual tracks, but not routed to the master (so in fact they don't produce any sound). This way you can always include these tracks when bouncing down, not worrying about the original sound you may or may not want to include.

So every sound that is a sidechain source: duplicate track, bounce it down, and use it explicitely for sidechaining without sending it's sound to the master or any other buss.

Good luck!

[edeneye]

Thank you, that's super helpful!