Mixdown and export
Print the song as a WAV, or every track as its own file in one ZIP.
Mixdown renders the whole project to a file: the full mix as one stereo WAV, or a set of tracks as separate WAVs of equal length delivered in one ZIP. It runs on your device, shows its progress, and can be cancelled at any point. The first settings are 24-bit WAV at the project’s sample rate with dither on and effect tails included.
When to use it
Export the full mix to listen on other speakers, send to a collaborator or hand to mastering. Export separate tracks when someone else will mix, when you want to bring the parts into another program, or when you want a reference mix alongside the tracks. For printing a single clip through its effects, see clip rendering.
Controls
Full mix
Everything you hear through Master, excluding Listening Room monitoring. Name the file and press Export. The summary line shows the format, sample rate, tails and dither before you commit.
Separate tracks
Pick the tracks to include, with an optional reference mix in the same ZIP. Each file is that track’s output after its effects, automation, level and pan, so a group’s file includes the tracks feeding it. The whole graph runs as it does in playback: sidechains keep triggering, mute and solo are respected, and a muted track exports as silence. Selecting both a track and the group it feeds is flagged, because the same audio would appear in both files.
Listening modes
The file carries what playback plays, listening aids included. When a module on a track that feeds the export is in one, a short line under the summary names it: a Limiter, Clipper or Resonance suppressor in Delta, a De-esser on Listen, Noise suppression playing the removed noise, Stereo Lab on Mono, or a Parametric EQ with a band soloed. For example, Master · Limiter is in Delta, so the mix holds only what it removes. Nothing is switched off for you, since some of these, Mono above all, are worth exporting on purpose.
Resolution and Dither
16-bit PCM, 24-bit PCM or 32-bit float. Auto adds light triangular dither to 16- and 24-bit files and none to float. Off keeps the plain quantization. For further mixing in another program, choose 32-bit float; for a finished file, 24-bit.
Include effect tails
On, the file runs until reverbs and delays have finished ringing. Off, it ends at the last clip. Every file in a track export shares the same start and length, and each one is aligned so latency from lookahead effects does not shift it.
Progress and saving
The dialog stays open through preparation, each file and finalization; Cancel stops cleanly and discards the partial file. In Chromium browsers the file is written straight to the location you choose; elsewhere it downloads. An error keeps your settings and offers Retry.
Tips
- Export the full mix without a limiter first and keep that file; it is the one a mastering engineer wants.
- When exporting separate tracks for someone else, include the reference mix so they hear what you intended.
- The export covers the whole project at its own sample rate with no normalization; set levels so Master’s meter stays below zero rather than relying on the file to fix it.
See also
Changes
- ImprovedExport names its listening modes, and chain presets say what they leave behind · 18 October 2026
The Mixdown dialog now lists any module in a listening mode on a track that feeds the export, such as a Limiter in Delta on Master or Stereo Lab on Mono, in one quiet line each, since the file carries exactly what you hear. Nothing is switched off or blocked. Saving an effect chain whose Compressor, Gate, Delay or Reverb listens to another track now says that the sidechain source isn't saved and needs picking again after loading, both when you save and when you open the preset.
- FasterExport and freezing are two to three times faster · 16 October 2026
Exporting a mix or stems and freezing a track now render the song in short blocks, the way playback does, instead of one sample frame at a time. A heavy song's mix and stems render two and a half to three and a half times faster, and a frozen track about two and a half times faster. The files are identical to before, byte for byte.