Mixdown missing tracks that are record enabled?

Cubase
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Is this a new problem, or am i losing it?
I go to mixdown, but the vocal, say, is missing because the track is record enabled (or monitor enabled?) or something.
I mean, it makes sense…
Wait, perhaps this has to do with the way I have the monitoring section set (tape-style, i think)… and that is fairly new for me.
Maybe i just solved my own problem?
I’ll post this anyway.

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yes, when playback is paused, the MONITOR-enable button turns on for the selected track… (in, I think it’s called, “tape-style” monitoring)
Monitor-enabled tracks are not part of the mixdown.
So, if the mixdown is NOT done in “real-time” mode, but rather in offline mode (whatever it’s called), then playback never starts and the selected track stays monitor-enabled and ends up missing from the mix.
However, if the mixdown is done in REAL-TIME, playback starts and disarms the monitor-enable button. The track is printed to the mixdown file.

Is this not a bug?
I only want MUTED tracks to not show up on my mixdowns.

3

Yeah, just need to make sure record enable isn’t on when exporting. I’ve made that mistake many times…

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Hi there

My solution to this was to setup a macro that turns all record enables off and then launches the export dialogue.

Best Regards

Dave

5

Thanks Dave! I now have a reason to delve into macros.

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Thanks Jimmy. Yeah, I guess it’s just audio tracks that suffer from this problem. So in the key commands section I see where there’s the ability to deactivate record-enable for all audio tracks.