TeeGee wrote:
Lol seems interesting but what is a bounce? What does it do?? When do you use it?
Maybe I can answer this question?
"Bouncing" tracks is an old technique, from a time when recordings were still on 4-track or 8-track machines (think Beatles and older), to save tracks for new recordings.
Nowadays you can still save system resources when for instance bouncing MIDI tracks to audio, so you save all the processing power for the VSTs you might use. But then you "bake in" the sounds, and cannot change them anymore. You can also bounce a direct (DI box) and a microphoned signal (for instance of an upright bass) track to a new track to further process it there, so you use only one compressor, eq, and so forth...
A https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22bouncing+tracks%22&ia=web search brings out things like:
https://www.homerecordingconnection.com/news.php?action=view_story&id=15 or
https://recordingreview.com/bouncing-tracks/
If we ask people for single HD "stems", it's usually also a mix of several tracks, like lead & backup vocals, several layered guitars, and so on... so you can basically think of "bouncing" as in creating submixes.
Hope that helps?