Send stems
the right way

Save a copy first

You're about to consolidate clips, which changes your edit points. Work on a copy so your original session stays intact.

Name your tracks

Kick, Snare, 808, LeadVocal, DoubleL, DoubleR, AdLib1. Not Audio_01 or Track 7.

Delete any track you don't want in the mix. If it's muted and you're not sure, delete it — I'll assume anything you send is meant to be there.

Select everything, full length

Select all tracks, then drag a selection from the very start of the session to past the last sound. With the All group enabled, triple-clicking on a track grabs the full length quickly.

This selection decides where your files start and end. If it doesn't begin at zero, nothing lines up.

Consolidate

⌥ + ⇧ + 3 on Mac, Alt + Shift + 3 on Windows.

This turns each track's scattered clips into one continuous file running the full song length, with all your edits and crossfades intact.

Export the clips

Open the Clips List on the right of the Edit window, select your consolidated clips, then use the menu in its top-right corner.

Add a rough mix

Bounce a normal stereo mix of the session as it sounds now and include it in the folder. Name it ROUGH. It tells me what you were going for faster than any description.

Save a copy first

Keeps your original safe while you strip things back for export.

Name your tracks

Kick, Snare, 808, LeadVocal, DoubleL, DoubleR, AdLib1. Not Audio 1 or Inst 3.

Delete anything muted that you don't want in the mix.

Set the cycle range to the whole song

Logic uses the cycle range to decide how long your exported files are. Set it from bar 1 to a bar or two past the last sound.

Open the export dialog

Click New Folder in the bottom left and name it after the song, so everything lands in one place.

Settings

Bypass Effect Plug-ins is what makes these raw stems — it strips your reverb, compression, and EQ so I can build the mix from clean audio.

Volume/Pan Automation off means your levels and panning get sent as data instead of baked into the file. Apple recommends this when the files are headed to another engineer.

Printing an effect on purpose

If a plugin is the sound — a signature vocal throw, a guitar pedal chain, heavy distortion — export that track a second time with Bypass turned off, and add PRINT to the filename.

Send both versions. Then I have the option and you don't lose the idea.

Route every sound to its own mixer insert

In the Channel Rack, assign each sound a unique mixer track number. One sound, one insert.

Layered parts that always move together — two stacked snares, a doubled clap — can share an insert. Everything else gets its own.

Name the inserts

Rename each mixer insert: KICK, SNARE, 808, LEAD, DBL L, DBL R, ADLIB HI. The insert name becomes the filename.

If you skip this you'll send me a folder of Insert 1.wav through Insert 24.wav and neither of us will know what anything is.

Clear the master chain

Go to the Master insert and bypass everything — Soft Clipper, Maximus, Fruity Limiter, any EQ. Set master volume to unity.

Also unmute anything you want exported. Muted inserts render as silence.

Set the range

In the Playlist, make sure you're exporting the full arrangement from bar 1 — not the current loop selection. Extend a second or two past the last hit.

Export

Ctrl + Shift + R. Choose an empty folder.

Add a rough mix

Export once more as a normal stereo file with your master chain on, and name it ROUGH. That's your reference — it shows me what you intended before I start.