Ableton Live - How to Bounce / Render Stems

You can go to the step by step blog post by clicking here: https://thesecondspirit.com/bounce-so... Hey there is a lot of little problems that can creep up when you bounce song stems in Ableton that you might not find out until they are all rendered. I went though Ableton and made a list of things to watch out for. Why would you want to bounce remix stems? -To share your song project with other people -To transfer your song into a different DAW -To save CPU usage and ram so that your computer is faster – or run your project on a laptop rather then in the studio -To clean up a cluttered and confusing song projects -To have a good back up Why do you want to make stems? Depending on your answer, you may want to use different methods of creating stems. For example, I want to create stems to make a less cluttered project I could mix on my laptop. Because of this, I want to keep all the tracks sounding exactly the same. I am not going to remove automation, or turn off effects, or normalize the tracks. If you are sending the project to a mix engineer you may want to delete all of the automation and effects. It just depends on what you are trying to do I rendered all the tracks to stems, but when I put them in a new project it doesn’t sound the same!!!!!! Yep, this is the exact problem I had and why I have made this tutorial. I had a complicated project I wanted to bounce to stems to make editing easier, but when I imported the stems into a new Ableton project it sounded a lot different then my original mix. Here is why: I had a lot of group tracks. If you don’t mute the sub group tracks in your new project you will hear all of them. I had effects and automation on the master chain I will delve more into this later in the post, but first lets go through some basics. Watch this video to learn more about stems.