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Hi everyone!

First time here on the forums and I'm not sure if this has been asked before- I haven't been able to find anything through Googling my issue so I'll describe it as best I can here.

I've written my first song in LMMS, and I'll be recording vocals for it this Thursday (exciting!!). The sound engineer needs a 24-bit consolidated wav file (so all the tracks are separate so he can properly mix) but.. I'm not sure if there are those options in LMMS, or where to find them if they exist? I sent him a regular .wav file earlier but it wasn't what he needed.

Is there a way I can export my song into a consolidated wav, 24-bit, for him to be able to use?

Thanks!

Haha. Liza, this is Scott from Audio Cave. I clicked on this thread because I thought it might have an answer. Hey! At least you know I work off the clock!! (But don't get used to it.) LOL.

spindlebox wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 12:14 am

Haha. Liza, this is Scott from Audio Cave. I clicked on this thread because I thought it might have an answer. Hey! At least you know I work off the clock!! (But don't get used to it.) LOL.

Well how about that, haha! Here's hoping we can both get some answers!

LizaJean wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 12:08 am

Hi everyone!
First time here on the forums

Welcome!

Is there a way I can export my song into a consolidated wav, 24-bit, for him to be able to use?

I do not know the expression consolidated wave, but if you mean that you want each track exported to its own wave-file, then yes, you can.
Create a new folder and name it 'xyz...' this folder will be the target for the tracks
Open your project
go to
File | export tracks
point to the new folder
Setup all the export parameters, and start
lmms will make one run for each defined track in the project and export all the tracks individually to the named folder.
Because its one pass/track, it can take long time!

musikbear wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:13 pm

LizaJean wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 12:08 am

Hi everyone!
First time here on the forums

Welcome!

Is there a way I can export my song into a consolidated wav, 24-bit, for him to be able to use?

I do not know the expression consolidated wave, but if you mean that you want each track exported to its own wave-file, then yes, you can.
Create a new folder and name it 'xyz...' this folder will be the target for the tracks
Open your project
go to
File | export tracks
point to the new folder
Setup all the export parameters, and start
lmms will make one run for each defined track in the project and export all the tracks individually to the named folder.
Because its one pass/track, it can take long time!

Awesome, thank you! I didn't see any settings in the wav export pop-up to make them 24-bit, though. I believe I saw 16 and 32/36? If there is no option for 24-bit, which would be better for sending back to the studio and sound engineer?

LizaJean wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:42 pm

Awesome, thank you! I didn't see any settings in the wav export pop-up to make them 24-bit, though. I believe I saw 16 and 32/36? If there is no option for 24-bit, which would be better for sending back to the studio and sound engineer?

Correct. There is no 24-bit option currently and won't be for the up coming 1.2 release. There is a feature request for this here.

LizaJean wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:42 pm

I didn't see any settings in the wav export pop-up to make them 24-bit, though.

Uhoh.. I suppose you could use a program like Audacity, but i honestly do not know if it will influence the quality ..
Undoubtedly you need to down-grade, so export in 36, and import that in audacity, then export in 24, but i do not know enough about wave to advice you better.

LizaJean wrote: Awesome, thank you! I didn't see any settings in the wav export pop-up to make them 24-bit, though. I believe I saw 16 and 32/36? If there is no option for 24-bit, which would be better for sending back to the studio and sound engineer?

It's best to ask your mixing engineer which he'd prefer. I'd guess 32bit float as that's the internal format that most DAWs use but it will make for big files.

If you really need 24 bit then musikbear is right, you can export 32 bit float from LMMS and Audacity will convert to 24 bit for you (use the "Other uncompressed..." option). But I think you'll have to do it one track at a time so it's a bit time consuming.

Steve