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If a mix engineer as decorated as Bob Clearmountain is still having to say this out loud, you know it's a genuinely widespread mix-up, not just a pet peeve of mine. Bob posted about this a while back, visibly a bit exasperated, and a fair few of the industry's heaviest hitters piled on in agreement (CLA/Scheps). The distinction he was drawing is simple: Multi-track parts are the individual channels that make up a session. Stems are those channels sub-mixed down into groups th

Export from Bar 1, Every Time If a vocal comes in at bar 109, I still want that file starting at bar 1, silent until bar 109. It should not be trimmed, offset, or labelled "starts at bar 109." Why? Because the moment I have to think about where parts start, I lose the one thing that makes your multi-track session usable: everything should line up against everything else automatically. I need to drag your parts straight onto a new mix session, and every part should sit where i