Export: What’s the Difference? What Does It Mean to “Bounce” a Track?
On the other hand, simple exporting is a pre-effects function, which is helpful for exporting raw audio files for later mixing, delivery to another engineer, or just to have as a dry multitrack session. Bouncing is an offline (non-real-time) function that replaces what real-time “printing” used to be - you’re able to quickly export tracks complete with effects and all processing without regard to actual session duration. Pro Tools’s two primary export options are Bounce to Disk and Export Selected. Getting Familiar with Pro Tools Export Options We’ll delve into the specific differences between the two, as well as how to perform these functions. Pro Tools bounce vs export options are two ways of saving audio files from a session to the desired destination.