Flatten track layers

[lkingston]

I really like the way Mixbus/Ardour does layers within an audio track. Is there a way to "flatten" the layers into a single audio file once you are happy with your edits?

[Ben@Harrison]

Yes, you can select a "range" using the Range tool, and choose "consolidate range".

[lkingston]

That worked great on an audio part. Thanks. I tried it on a MIDI part as well but the timings all got scrambled. Is there a way to do this on MIDI that preserves the timing. Where I'm using this is a drum track that I pieced together. Many of the sections overlap slightly. That may be where the timings get lost.

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OK, I found this:

community.ardour.org/node/7350

I bounced the MIDI track and got the composite single MIDI clip I was looking for.

Now that I know how to feed one MIDI track into another, this also answers two other questions:

1) How do I do multiple passes of drums?
2) How does a person use a multi part VST like SampleTank or Garritan Personal Orchestra.

In both cases I can work with multiple MIDI tracks and simply bounce the MIDI data when I'm done.

Cool, I'm getting there.