Reimporting an MP3 to add more tracks

[Ferryman_1957]

I've worked out that it's possible to have 10 actual tracks for a final mixdown on a BR (two sets of four tracks bounced into stereo pairs with a fifth track played live on each as the bounce occurs), which is pretty impressive for such a small piece of kit. However, a thought occurred to me - you could create an MP3 from the final mix and then import it into a new song, allowing you to add another possible five tracks as a stereo pair. I thought this might be a good way of adding vocals.

Has anyone tried this? Does it cause any quality loss by importing a mix from MP3 and adding more tracks? I guess I could try this myself but I felt pretty sure one of the seasoned hands here would have tried this.....

Cheers,

Nigel

[SteveG]

You can have a lo more tracks that that with careful bouncing mate! And yes, reloading the mixdown to a new song will work just fine, just use a fairly bland effect, such as mixdown. The only real reason to do that tho is to keep all your v tracks intact. If you are sure you dont need them after bouncing you can just overwrite them. This does of course mean that you cannot re-mix if it all goes wrong.....

[64Guitars]

I've worked out that it's possible to have 10 actual tracks for a final mixdown on a BR (two sets of four tracks bounced into stereo pairs with a fifth track played live on each as the bounce occurs), which is pretty impressive for such a small piece of kit. However, a thought occurred to me - you could create an MP3 from the final mix and then import it into a new song, allowing you to add another possible five tracks as a stereo pair. I thought this might be a good way of adding vocals.

With bouncing, the number of tracks you can include in your final mix is practically unlimited. The Micro BR has 32 tracks, so even if you don't include any live input ("fifth track") during the bounce and you keep your intermediate bounces, you can record 16 separate tracks with seven bounces (see this post by Hooper).

But that needn't be the end of it. If you backup your song to your computer, you can re-use 30 tracks along with the result of your last bounce. That would give you another 14 tracks in seven bounces for a total of 30 tracks. In the very unlikely case that you still need more tracks, you can repeat this process indefinitely for an unlimited number of tracks. There's no need to use an MP3 of your mix, and it would be a bad idea anyway since the quality of an MP3 is much less than the original tracks due to lossy data compression.

[Ferryman_1957]

Agree on the big number of bounces possible before you get to the final "mix". I was just impressed to effectively have 8 tracks (plus two live) that I could directly control wrt pan, volume and reverb in a final mix (well, in two separate final "bounce" mixes).

Thanks for the steer on importing MP3s. I'll definitely give that a go. Continuing to be impressed by what is possible in such a small machine!

Cheers,

Nigel