Exporting Tracks to be mixed in another DAW

[loungefly]

I need to export individual tracks from a project to be mixed in another DAW by someone else. They've asked me to send them the .wav files for individual tracks. now since a lot of the tracks start midway between the song, they wouldn't know where the patches fit in. i've searched through the forum and the only idea i got was to insert silence or export in some way, so that silence gets added from the beginning of each track. however, i've not been able to figure out how to do this. when i'm adding silence, or copy pasting it.. the existing track is getting pushed forward.. would be great if you could help our link me to a place where this is explained in detail.

thanks!

[steve]

You seem to have the general idea of what to do.

Here's a quick way to achieve it:

1. Ctrl+A (select All)
2. Home key (cursor to the start)
3. Generate menu > Silence and select 1 second (insert 1 second of silence)
4. File menu > Export Multiple and select "split files based on tracks"

Edit: forgot to mention - to prevent the metadata editor from popping up between each exported track, go into "Edit menu > Preferences > Import/Export" and un-tick "show metadata editor".

[loungefly]

hi steve,

thanks for the response. i tried what you suggested but it doesn't seem to work. the two problems i'm facing in this are.

1. Edit > preferences - there is no further option for import/export. hence, no option to hide metadata editor. also searching contents shows 0 results for metadata. i'm using audacity 1.2.6.
2. all the tracks are getting exported doing what you suggested. however, from what i understand, for it to work correctly while importing into another DAW, the length of each track should be a minimum of "length of the musical part played + time interval before that part commences"

however, this is not happening. what i'm getting are individual tracks that are the exact length of the actual fill in. hope i'm clear in describing this. do suggest if i'm doing something wrong.

[steve]

Doh, you're still using the ancient 1.2.x version aren't you.
Do yourself a big favour and upgrade to 1.3.13.
(You can have both versions installed at the same time, but note that Audacity 1.2.x cannot open projects that have been saved by Audacity 1.3.x)

[loungefly]

cool.. will do that.. does 1.3.13 open projects saved by 1.2.x? Because only that way i'll be able to export the tracks for this project.

[waxcylinder]

Yes you can open 1.2 projects in 1.3 but not the other way around.

WC

[loungefly]

thanks! will try this over the weekend and see how it goes..

[loungefly]

hi, tried this over the weekend and it worked. thanks!

only thing.. a couple of tracks (2 out of 20) were slightly off on the timing. any idea what could be the reason?

[kozikowski]

There was some difficulty posted in Audacity 1.3 with the system refusing to accurately place time points -- sliding some just slightly one way or the other. This may be an offshoot of that. I don't know there is a solution, although it's high on the work list to be fixed.

Koz

[steve]

There was some difficulty posted in Audacity 1.3 with the system refusing to accurately place time points

There was a problem with the length of exported tracks in Audacity 1.3.10, but that has been fixed.
As far as I'm aware, the current version of Audacity should export tracks correctly as long as they all start at time=0.
If the tracks play in sync on Audacity, and all the tracks start at time=0, then they should be correct in another DAW. My suggestion would be to carefully check that these two conditions are met.