{Influence pt. 2_Mixdown}

Continuing from our assignment last class, we're going to spend some time mixing our beats. The trick is, you are going to mix someone else's beat and someone else will mix yours. Here is what I want you to do. We're going to do this in 3 steps:

1. Export audio files of all the individual instruments of your beat out of Reason.
2. Import a classmate's files to Pro Tools.
   
3. In Pro Tools, use faders, panning and fx processors to create an interesting mix.

Part 1 - Exporting

1. Create a folder called: your name_trackout
2. Do a file Save As and call your save the song as: (name of song)_trackout
3. In the Mixer, COMMAND-click on ALL your pan knobs and faders to reset them back to the default settings.
4. Set the End Marker just past the end of the song.
5. In the Mixer, click on the S button to Solo the instrument you want to export. NOTE: if your Redrum is going to one channel on the mixer, you also have to click the S button on the drum channel in the Redrum.
6. Go to File>Export Song to Audio File
7. Change the filename to the name of the instrument you have solo'd.
8. Make sure the file is going into the Trackout folder you created in step 1.
9. Hit Save.
   
10. Check the Export Settings (44,100 Hz/16 bit is fine)
11. Hit Export.
12. Repeat Steps 5-11 for each instrument in your song.
    
13. When you have all your audio files in the Trackout folder, put a copy of the folder in Shared Media>Student Work>Influence Trackouts

Part 2 - Importing to Pro Tools
You should all be pros at this by now. Just in case you forgot...

1. Copy a classmate's Trackout folder to your computer
2. Open Pro Tools.
3. Start a new session called: classmate's name_your name_mix
   
4. Go to File>Import Audio and import all the tracks from your classmate's folder.
5. Put all the files on new tracks.

Part 3 - The Mix

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