What determines the length of the bounce in place operation?

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What determines the length of the bounce in place operation?

Bounce in place seems to take way longer than necessary. I'm wondering if there is a way to get logic to only do what is needed.

I have an instrument track with only one small region. I select only that region, and only that track. When I bounce in place, the counter goes past the end of my region, then it goes past the end of all the regions in my session. Specifically, my region ends at around one minute, there are other (disabled) tracks that have regions going out to about 6 minutes, but the playhead goes all the way out to 33 minutes when bouncing.

It takes over a minute to bounce 12 seconds of audio.

It's definitely not a CPU issue, as my machine has no problem playing this back in real time.

Is there some way to set a limit on how far out Logic goes during this procedure? Any suggestions most welcome as this really slows down my workflow.

Thanks

Jack

Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Nov 25, 2020 2:18 AM

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Wilddrums

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Nov 25, 2020 2:13 PM in response to JakHay2

The tail option is available for BiP region only.

Bounce a region in place in a Logic Pro project - Apple Support.

WD

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Wilddrums

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Nov 25, 2020 7:24 AM in response to JakHay2

Bounce in place a track or a region?

The limit for BiP is not the length of the MIDI region but the length of the resulting audio including effects. Up to the project length.

If BiP a region, do you include the Audio Tail?

WD

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 1:41 PM in response to Wilddrums

>>> Bounce in place a track or a region?

I didn't think there was a difference. How would I choose between the two?

I am selecting a single region (which selects the track) and then bouncing.

>>> The limit for BiP is not the length of the MIDI region but the length of the resulting audio including effects. Up to the project length.

Yes. And the resulting audio region is exactly as long as it should be, so that's good. It just takes way too long to generate the audio region.

>>> If BiP a region, do you include the Audio Tail?

Yes. The tail is short. That is not the issue.

My concern is that when the bounce is executing, the playhead runs through the whole project and out to 33 minutes (way past the end of the project).

I'd expect the bounce to be much faster than real time, but maybe that's the issue - maybe it's bouncing in real time - and the playhead is just an anomaly.

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Wilddrums

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Nov 25, 2020 2:04 PM in response to JakHay2

You can select just a region or an entire track. The BiP dialogs are slightly different.

Did you try without the audio tail?

I'm trying to reproduce your issue to no avail so far. That happens with all instruments? macOS and Logic versions?

WD

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 2:10 PM in response to Wilddrums

I get the same dialog no matter what I select. (one region, all regions, or the track)

I don't see any option for including the tail or not.

Mac OS 10.14.6, Logic 10.5.1

I will do a screen capture for you.

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 2:19 PM in response to Wilddrums

Ahhh - I see - they are two different commands... I was bouncing the track. When I bounce the region, it works as I expect - fast and simple.

It still seems odd that the playhead goes out way past the end of my project when I bip the track.

Hmmm - not seeing any way to attach an mov file to this thread...

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 2:33 PM in response to Wilddrums

I tried it with Logic's Bosendorfer Piano instrument - same result.

I also tried moving the region and I can tell you that it is not bouncing in real time as I suspected.

Maybe there's some midi data on one of my tracks somewhere out to 33 minutes...

I did a "Zoom to fit all contents" and it shows the project going out to around 9.5 minutes.

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 2:50 PM in response to JakHay2

Try this:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5p0dlmmvkohtkq2/AADUW_yj_WxULVqv0lTuB2wfa?dl=0

Just select the midi region and ctl-cmd-B.

I created this session by starting with my existing session, adding the piano instrument and a MIDI region on it, and then deleting everything else.

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Wilddrums

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Nov 25, 2020 3:24 PM in response to JakHay2

Thanks for the project.

I did a quick test. The BiP track goes to the end of the project before it finishes the bounce. Your project end is beyond bar 800. I just set the end to let say bar 9 and the BiP is a lot quicker. Any reason to set the end so far?

WD

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JakHay2 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 4:38 PM in response to Wilddrums

I had no concept of "setting" the end of the session. I thought the end of the session was simply the last point in the project where there was data. I looked it up. Everything is clear now.

Thanks for your time.

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