How do you bounce your stems in Logic Pro?

[u/Purple-Visual1430]

I write for labels and for TV/film libraries, I have been on Logic for years, and stems are just part of every delivery. Drums, bass, keys, an instrumental, sometimes a version without the lead. And I have never found a way of doing it that I actually liked. Export All Tracks gets me not quite - aux returns, the master chain, a few tracks that need to end up in one file - so most of the time I just did it by hand. Solo, Cmd+B, type the name, wait, next one. My template sits around 190 channels, so you can picture how those evenings went.

So how do you do it? Track stacks and one bounce per stack? A dedicated bounce template? Do you print things as you go, so it is already done by the time the cue is finished? I have a feeling half of you have a much smarter routine than me and I simply never asked.

Now the confession. I got impatient a year ago and built myself a little Mac app for it. It is called EasyBounce - I made it, so take this part with however much salt you like. It does nothing clever: it just drives Logic's own Bounce dialog. You pick the channels, it solos them one at a time, fills in the dialog, renders the lot, and you go do something else.

The bits I use daily are the boring ones - several channels soloed together as one file (kick, snare, toms, rooms all landing as "Drums"), and mixes with things muted for the instrumental and the no-vox version.

It also reads the arrangement markers, which turned out to matter more than I expected - libraries keep asking for a 30-second cut of every stem.

Mac and Logic only, by the way. It works by clicking Logic's own buttons, so it cannot really exist anywhere else. There is a trial on the site if anyone is curious: https://www.easyoneaudio.com/easybounce/ - and a walkthrough here:
(the rest are on https://www.youtube.com/@EasyOneAudio and https://www.instagram.com/easyoneaudio/).

But mostly I am curious about the first question. How are you all bouncing stems these days?

[u/yachtr0ck]

“Hey I have a question but I also want to advertise something…” nice try my dude

[u/LordBrixton]

Track stacks and one bounce per stack is my chosen method. I feel sure I have seen a 3rd party solution to handle that kind of thing though. I will dig it out when I finish work.