Reply To: Bounce Track Functionality

Why, if a track is designated at a Bounce Track, do adjustments to the level sliders for the track have no effect on the output level of the track (containing the bounced audio)?

Bounce recording captures the output of the track, after all processing is applied. This includes level/pan processing. Level has to be processed before the bounce capture because otherwise level/pan automation child tracks (which become muted when bounce is enabled) would not be processed. This question has come up quite often, so I may decide to change this behaviour. To adjust the gain output of a bounced group track, you can add a parent audio enabled track.

why, after Bouncing to a track, do the plugin’s of the Child Tracks remain active, but the tracks are muted?

If by “active” you mean loaded in memory, then you have the “unload plugin…” option in the track properties. This option is off by default, because some plugins take a lot of time loading (e.g. sample set based plugins). So if your workflow involves frequent toggling of bounce mode, you would often prefer that the plugins are always loaded.