Export problem

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to export a mix and Mixbus won’t let me choose the Hard Disk were I want to save.
The only optionI have is at the root of my system disk.
I have four Hard Disk hooked to my computer and none of them appears as a choice to save any file on it when trying to export.
Is this a known problem with MixBus?

Help please.

#2

Thank you very much for all the help.
Problem solved.

#3

Hi JazzHot,

We recently added the /Volumes folder to the “new session” dialog and the “soundfile browser” (import) dialog. Unfortunately we did not add /Volumes to the “export” dialog! oops!

You can still find it, however. Just click on “File System” (which shows your entire system ) and then choose Volumes. All your attached drives should show up there. This is the default location for drives on OSX, although Finder tries very hard to hide these details from you.

I hope this helps,
Ben Loftis
Harrison Consoles

#4

OK
I used typic to send you those screen grabs.
Hope all is fine.

First image is straight forward. Create a new session and take note that the default folder is on my sustem disk.

Second image:
Selecting Export to bounce a mix. See the path in the higher part.

Third image:
Considering that the path shown above is not where I want the mix to be saved, I then choosed “Browse”
Now, the third image is showing that there is Volumes options.

Thank you

#5

Seablade

Maybe this would work better. It is the link to use to access the pictures directly on tinypic.
http://fr.tinypic.com/r/30nbtap/7

Regards

#6

I forgot to mention that two of the images are under Mixbus tag and one under New session

Regards

#7

Yea go ahead and send me some screenshots, you can post them to tinypic.com or something similar and just give me the URLs here. On OS X in Applications>Utilities is a program called Grab.app which can grab screenshots for you.

Its odd that you aren’t seeing /Volumes show up, I think that was fixed in 1.2 IIRC, but as you already found you can work around it by using the add to favorites functionality, and in fact this is what I did before /Volumes was added by default to the left hand side.

   Seablade
#8

Do me a favor, open up a terminal window (Applications>Utilities>Terminal.app) and type in the following(WARNING This WILL reset all Mixbus preferences, so we are only moving it to test, you can always move it back):

mv ~/.ardour2 ~/ardour_old

Then open up Mixbus and see if you still don’t see Volumes, and if it defaults to the root directory on creating new sessions etc. now.

If you need some settings you previously set and can’t reset, use these two commands

mv ~/.ardour2 ~/ardour_mod
mv ~/ardour_old ~/.ardour2

Once you confirm your settings are back to where they are, you can remove the modified ardour_mod folder if you choose.

   Seablade
#9

Thank you Seablade.

I did what you asked and I still can,t export to the drive and folder I want.

Here is what I did after doing your terminal suggestion.

I started MixBuss which shows the initial set up window.
Then type the name a a new session and let Mixbus creste it in the default folder which was /Users/Richard on my system drive.
Once into my session, I tried to export Export session to audio file, this is where I don’t see the option of saving it to another folder and drive other than my system Hard disk.

I managed a way around by adding folders to the favorites section, from different drives when launching MixBus by clicking Browse icon folder.
So when exporting a mix I don’t see Volumes but do see my Favorites Folders where I could save a mixdown other then the Export folder created with the session.

I could send you screen grabs but don’t know how to do it here.

Sorry for my English. Hope you can reproduce what I am experiencing.

#10

Thanks seablade.
I looked in the About MixBus and here is what I got:
MixBus 1.3, Ardour 2.8.11
(built from revision 7541)

#11

Thanks seablade.
I knew that selecting /volumes I should see all my drives but in my particular case I could not see /Volumes under my options to select a place to save my bounce. The only choice that was given to me is the Export folder in the created session at the root of my system drive.
Actually, when I created my session i did not noticed that I had the choice to were I could save my session. So by default I think MixBus as /Users/my system drive as the first place to save.
Like I said, I tried to save a bounce on another drive, but I could not see /Volumes.

I will try to reproduce again and see if I did something wrong.

#12

@Jazzhot-

It sounds like you are not running on the most up to date version of Mixbus in that case, or the session was created on an older version as what you are describing, both in creating the session in the root of your hard drive, and not seeing the /Volumes on the left hand side, were fixed by a update to Mixbus from Harrison.

     Seablade
#13

I realized it may help if I gave you the current version numbers;) You should be on Mixbus 1.3 if you are on the most up to date version now IIRC.

   Seablade
#14

Answering my post here.
I just found the problem, in fact not a problem.

All depends were you save your newly created session.
Afterwards MixBuss will remember were your saves should go including any kind of exports.

Back to MixBus.
So far so good. I bought it yesterday :o)

#15

Actually that isn’t the answer either;)

All your External Drives are mounted in /Volumes on OS X. This is where any External Drive, Network Drive, DMG, etc. all get mounted to. So all you need to do is click on /Volumes and you should see any drive currently connected.

   Seablade