In previous versions, if you use the "Range" tool to select a set of tracks or events. You could drag that to a folder in the S1 browser to dump raw track files.

The nice thing about this feature, is it would combine any events on a track, pad tracks at the beginning or end, etc. Such that if you highlighted a group of tracks (all with many events, etc.) on it, with the range tool, then drug those tracks to a file folder. It would produce one file per track with all the audio from each track in raw form (no FX, no anything). So it effectively merged all the events, padded the tracks, and created one file per track, bypassing all the FX, faders, busses, etc.

In 5.2, I do the same thing, but when I drag it to a folder it throws up the circle with a line through it and doesn't allow you to do that.

Has anyone else tried this? It's an extremely useful feature for those of us who do remote mixing work. I'm not exactly sure if it changed with 5.2 or some previous release, I can't remember what version I was on last time I needed it.

Thanks, gabo


For those unfamiliar, this is different from stems. Well it's actually the same as track stems, IF you went and disabled all the FX, sends, busses, and set all the faders to 0. But that's a lot of trouble.