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What is the proper way to export individual MIDI tracks as Audio Stem files?

There is an easy tool in LMMS to export tracks that will export all my individual MIDI tracks with soft synths directly to individual audio stems.

What is the proper way to achieve that in Qtractor?

It seems like I've been watching outdated youtube tutorials.

Simply exporting audio Master doesn't produce sound, regardless of synth plugin.

Aux Sends work for Bus and master/slave mixing, etc.

And I cannot connect Master out to Master in directly (no signal) tho I could use Carla Rack as middle man, but that's only worth it for final export. I can't do all that for all individual MIDI tracks to get audio stems?

I have just now found if I select all Buses not just the Master then the MIDI to audio export works fine, but it's still just into a single audio file combined.

But at least for the final mix I now don't have to use Carla or other external tool, I can just select all the output Buses I'm using, and then hit export. That is wonderful.

But I do wonder about the stems.

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_Individual Tracks:
There is no way to batch export individual tracks.
You will need to export them one by one.
Set the track to export to SOLO.
In the export form, select the output bus for that track.

_Full Projects:
To export an entire project, I find it most reliable to create one track to record the final master. This ensures that you record exactly what you hear.
The way I find best is to create a duplex Export bus. Create a Final Master Track with input and output: Export Bus.

Connect the PipeWire monitor output to the Export bus input.
Record.

btw thank you so much for all the help and explanations.

so basically record the system sound in qtractor while playing back the final track?

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