Mr. Karl. Can you explain more about this multitrack rendering you so fond speak of? Never heard about such thing.
well buddy, you see, its like this. you make a song out of of a bunch of samples. it is basically a six minute pattern of those samples in different timings. but thats the absolute length 0 to 05:59 and then at six minutes it stops. this is just example, but multitracking, to my mind, doesnt make sense less youre mixing down a long track.
so what you do is output each sample, solo, to a wav render. you do that with all your sounds, and pretty soon, youll start to group them. because outputting six minute sequences of 60 plus sounds takes a bitch of a long time, therefore, you group drums, maybe split that into cymbals, kick snare, percs, and the rest, (real studio engineers usually do an "overhead" stem of the drums too, which is worth keeping in mind) then bass, then bass synths, then synths, then strings, then leads, then fx, vocals and then one just called "the rest". so about 8-10,
which would easily take me a whole day back in 2002.
these are known as "stems". in fl you can use a function to output your mixer busses to something like stems.
if you got your mind right, you will get stems, but usually with you creative people you get "bullshit", this is very common.
anyway.
you then load them up, in a multitrack app, like vegas or cooledit (anything with audiolanes will do) side by side, and start applying compression, eq, panning, vol env, filters, reverbs and all that fucking shit. and out of the ashes rises a new fire. a new song, with 100x the professional sheen. after that, you could do a mastering job on the final render, which may or, very likely, may not! make it even more better.
this is a) why you should be aware, be very aware of multitracking and b) very scared of mastering, c) multi-band compression is NOT to be trifled with, dont use it unless you know what the hell youre doing, in fact, stay away from mastering altogether.
somebody better do that funny shuffle i always laugh at or im going to punch 100 women in the morning, first thing. on the beach, drinking pink champanga, making sweet vibes.
on the dulcimer, strung only with hot shame. BADBOY
