It depends on the recipient, but mostly they like the have control of the arrangement. What I don't understand is, what is the recipient of the individual processed tracks doing with them? OR if at all possible, try to find working partners who use Logic (or ask your current working partner to use Logic) whenever possible, which would greatly simplify the entire workflow. You'll then be able to easily export individually processed tracks, and at least on the other hand when the recipient sums the tracks in their DAW they will get the exact same sound you're getting in Logic. You can always group the automation of effects if needed. If that's going to be your workflow, then perhaps consider putting the effects on the individual tracks rather than bussing the tracks to an Aux. Or maybe because you've sent both raw and processed exports, they can pick and choose which they'll keep and which they'll re-process? So what are they doing? Creative choices? Editing? Volume balance and EQing? I'm in unfamiliar territory so I confess that I wouldn't really know how to work with individually processed tracks. If they try compressing a track that has an automated low-pass filter on them, that's going to be quite challenging, or the compression won't sound the same throughout the whole track? If you apply reverb to a track that already has a stutter effect applied, the reverb will sustain in between the stuttered parts? If you apply compression, each individual slice will trigger the attack and release phase of the compressor? What I don't understand is, what is the recipient of the individual processed tracks doing with them? I suppose their choices are now limited. But now that you explain it I can understand better. Ok thanks for the example, that makes more sense, and indeed you're not the only one facing this issue, I've see this question asked many times, I've just never experienced the need for me or anyone else around me to do it in real life, most likely simply because we don't work with the same music genre. Hard to believe I am the only person facing this issue The individual tracks have to be as close to your mix as possible when being sent out, period. A low-pass filter is fairly easy to replicate, yes, but what about glitch/stutter effects on the master? There is no way they can exactly replicate that and you don't even WANT to them to. Do you really want to send the individual tracks without the low pass filter and have the artist or their engineer spend hours on trying to replicate your automation effects? No, I would like to believe not. I often use a low pass filter on the master channel that I automate for certain parts, e.g. They want the individual tracks to sound identical to the mix that I did, or at least as close as possible so they can change the arrangement where needed in their own DAW. Sure, some want both dry AND wet but never only the dry versions. They don't want dry individual tracks, they want the effects to be printed on them. Maybe not for some, for me it's mandatory! I've been making music as a living for the past 10 years, with over 1000 clients that all asked for the stems (or individual tracks I should say). So sending individually processed tracks generally isn't needed The only time I've exported individual tracks are for when I need another producer to do further recording, editing or mixing, and in that case either I send the Logic project file or I send individual raw (unprocessed) tracks to a mixing engineer. So sending individually processed tracks generally isn't needed. If you're bussing a track to an Aux to be processed that's generally because you're using the Aux to process a submix of several tracks, and the processed submix isn't equal to the mix of individually processed tracks. Individual tracks on the other hand, normally don't need individual bus effects printed into individual bounce/exports. a mix may typically be composed of somewhere between 4 and 6 or 7 stems, that you can send to a client so they can easily adjust the balance of a mix (a little more percussion, a little less vocals.), and it's fairly easy to export individually processed submixes in Logic. Stems are not individual tracks, they are submixes of a group of instrumets: for example all drums, all vocals, all guitars, etc. Now, my clients want the stems (with the bus/send effects printed of course).
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