Exporting audio
Exports render offline — faster than realtime and independent of your audio device. Everything you hear is in the bounce: clip gains, fades, crossfades and the mix of all tracks.
Exporting the arrangement
File → Export Audio… (Cmd+Alt+B). The dialog offers:
- Format — WAV, FLAC, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis or MP3
- Sample rate
- Output channels
- Bit depth (WAV, FLAC, AIFF) or Quality, the bit rate (Ogg Vorbis, MP3)
| Format | Kind | Bit depth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAV | lossless | 16, 24 or 32 | |
| FLAC | lossless, compressed | 16 or 24 | noticeably smaller than WAV; at most 8 channels per file |
| AIFF | lossless | 16 or 24 | |
| Ogg Vorbis | lossy | — | 64 to 500 kbps (default 192 kbps); at most 8 channels per file |
| MP3 | lossy | — | 96, 128, 160, 192, 256 or 320 kbps (default 192 kbps); mono or stereo; at most 48 kHz |
FLAC and AIFF hold exactly the same audio as a WAV of the same bit depth. Ogg Vorbis and MP3 give up a little detail for much smaller files, which suits sharing a mix more than archiving it. MP3 plays everywhere. Ogg Vorbis sounds a little better at the same size, and its kbps figures are approximate, since Vorbis varies its bit rate with the material. An MP3 export above 48 kHz is resampled to the highest rate MP3 has. For a multi-channel export wider than the format allows, choose multi-mono (one file per channel) or a different format.
MP3 files are encoded with LAME, which is built into Audionaut.
Mono and stereo exports render the mix as you hear it, including
each channel's output routing: channels
routed directly to outputs 1 or 2 land on those file channels unpanned, and
channels routed to higher outputs are left out. Multi-channel and
multi-mono exports are stems — every channel of the arrangement goes to
its own file channel (or file), regardless of routing. Multi-mono files are
named after the one you choose, numbered per channel: mix.flac becomes
mix-01.flac, mix-02.flac, and so on.
Exporting a single clip
Right-click a clip and choose Export…. The clip is bounced by itself — with its own gains and fades applied, so it sounds exactly as it does in the arrangement.
Name the file .wav, .flac, .aiff, .ogg or .mp3 to pick the format. A
FLAC or AIFF from a 32-bit float source is written at 24 bits, and Ogg Vorbis
and MP3 use the default 192 kbps.
Exporting from the command line
The export verb of audionaut-cli renders the same way. The format follows
the output file's extension (-o mix.wav, .flac, .aiff, .ogg or .mp3),
and Ogg Vorbis and MP3 take --bitrate in kbps (192 by default) instead of
--bit-depth. It adds a few scripted conveniences: a start/length
window, one-mono-file-per-channel (--multi-mono), and bouncing a named region
(always dry — a region is raw material; gains and fades belong to clips). See
The command line and AI agents.