Mixing Down – The Render Function

The Render function allows you to mix down the whole audio montage or sections of it to a single audio file or to several files in case of a multichannel audio montage. It also allows you to render to an audio CD, to a CD image and cue sheet, or to a new audio montage.

A mixdown is necessary to produce an audio file from the audio montage. The Render function can be used for the following purposes:

Writing a CD from a CPU-intensive audio montage, because it allows you to first render all track and clip effect processing to recreate a new audio montage and then write the CD in a second pass.
Rendering audio files, audio montages, or marker regions in audio montages to multiple file formats at the same time.
Rendering surround channels as multiple files while retaining the stereo/mono status of the individual surround channels.
Creating a CD image and cue sheet.
Rendering audio montages to a single file or rendering various parts of a montage to multiple audio files in one operation. For example, you can render regions, groups, clips, or titles of an album.