
Any tracks that are muted will not appear in the bounce. When you play back your session, all tracks that you hear are included in the bounce.
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Most digital audio workstations provide functions for mixing down or bouncing tracks however, not all systems approach the process the same way. Once you have created a stereo mix, you can play back the results outside of Pro Tools and share your composition with others by burning the file onto a CD. You can record your mix to audio tracks within your session or create an external recording using the Bounce to Disk command. The most common mixdown technique in Pro Tools is to mix down to a stereo file (or left and right mono files). Pro Tools mixdown can be done any time you want to bounce tracks or create a completed mix for use outside of your session. Mixdown is often the last phase of music production, but in

This process is also often referred to as bouncing, which traditionally has been done to combine several tracks together to free up resources or reduce track count. Mixing down is the process of recording the output from multiple tracks to a stereo or multi-channel format.

This article is an excerpt from the following book: Pro Tools 101 Official Courseware.
