Control Your Channel Mapping

You can have more control over mixing and rendering by not using Tracks > Mix and Render but rather going straight to the File > Export dialog. This combines mixing, rendering, and exporting all into a single operation. Before you do this, open the Edit > Preferences > Import/Export dialog and make sure that “Use Custom Mix” is selected and that “Always mix all tracks down to Stereo or Mono channel(s)” is not. This allows you to map your channels at export, and this is when you will be grateful that you gave all of your tracks useful names (Figure 9-34). You can map tracks to more than one channel.

Mapping your tracks to channels at export (note the channel slider at the bottom)

Figure 9-34. Mapping ...

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