How to correctly export tracks from Logic into Pro Tools

[@edrock26]

Your excellent tutorial really helped me! Thank You!

[@rogerio.naressi]

I am glad to hear it!

[@oh_itsJO]

question!! forgive me if you answered this question in the video maybe i missed it !! will this keep all the eq/automation etc. edits i’ve made to my midi files?? maybe i did something wrong the first time lmao. I just like the way my music sounds in logic and i want to keep as much as the editing i’ve made as i possibly can to minimize reworking it in protools later at the studio!! if that’s not possible thank you anyways for this video i like learning and ur very easy to follow!! 😊

[@rogerio.naressi]

If you select the right settings when exporting, then yes. You will not be able to change the EQ and effects parameters in Pro Tools, though. They will be rendered into the new audio files

[@TheZenguitarguy]

I know that this was made three years ago and things have changed a lot, but that's not really transferring a session from logic to Protools? You transfer the audio data, but transferring a session would be being able to transfer the MIDI performances so that you could change sounds in protools, and also a lot of the information that you may have already created regarding how things work and sound together? It doesn't quite make sense to me because if you want to move from logic as a production tool to Pro Tools as a mix environment that you can't transfer all of the data and audio files and MIDI just as they are? I am still looking for a way to do this as I research videos on KZbin. I appreciate that you made this and want to help people and hopefully there's a more updated version of this process somewhere!

[@rogerio.naressi]

Hi! Unfortunately there is no way to transfer an "unbaked" session from Logic to Pro Tools yet. This is because, among others reasons, they work with different plugin formats. You can, however, transfer the MIDI data (but not the instruments) if you export a MIDI file from Logic and import it within Pro Tools.

[@TheZenguitarguy]

@@rogerio.naressi unfortunately, that's not my experience trying to move midi data. I am not seeing that the performance In Sync is transferring to Protools in such a way that I can just replace the sound. I think that logic in terms of communicating with other DAW's is not a very efficient tool and while I understand and appreciate that people feel more creative within the environment I am not experiencing what I feel is a professional level of information and transfer of information into Pro Tools as a final stage workflow. I really do appreciate you responding and hope that logic eventually gets its act together and gets a little bit more efficient and professional. I started working with DAW's back in the early 1980s when I was a Synclavier owner and programmer. I think I've worked with almost every platform and I think that the newest platforms, while making things simple in someways an overly complicated i other's, doesn't really relate to 100 years of established workflow parameters. I just find myself feeling frustrated that it seems like it's just trying to reinvent the wheel. Just my two cents…

[@alexio2612]

When I send my project to my friend and he opens it none of the tracks are in time or at the right place. They’re are lined up at the beginning of the project. How do I fix this ? Thanks !

[@rogerio.naressi]

Logic will render all the clips into whole files that will start at the beginning of the selection. If a track has a lot of silence in the beginning, it should render that silence into the file so that, when syncing to the beginning of the project, it aligns correctly. Maybe you are selecting "export regions as audio files" instead of "export tracks as audio files"?

[@gnick88]

Why not just export AAF protocol? Files will be in the same place as the original positioning and all you have to do is set the BPM first before importing into any DAW>

[@rogerio.naressi]

That is another workflow... There are many. AAF will not export effects or VSTs, so it's important to render those first. Then an AAF can be exported.

[@sachchidanandyadav2949]

Brother, my song's voice becomes slow. When I export it, please can you tell how to solve this problem.

[@rogerio.naressi]

You are probably exporting or importing it at a sample rate that is different across sessions. If exporting as 44.1kHz from Logic, make sure you select the same sample rate when importing it Pro Tools, and check the box "apply SRC (sample rate conversion)". This also applies when exporting from Pro Tools and importing into Logic. I hope this helps.

[@sachchidanandyadav2949]

@@rogerio.naressi thank u

[@pianoturnerrobert]

Thx

[@malcolmburn1113]

none of these bloody videos addresses the issue of zero time stamp on all exported audio. ? Doesnt anyone actually listen to their results?

[@sachchidanandyadav2949]

Brother, my song's voice becomes slow. When I export it, please can you tell how to solve this problem.

[@rogerio.naressi]

You are probably exporting at a sample rate different than your session without applying SRC (sample rate conversion)