Fast Bounce
Guide

Learn Fast Bounce

Twenty minutes, start to finish: how the app thinks, what every part of the window does, and how to set up deliverables once and bounce them on every project.

Start with Your first bounce

How it fits together

  1. 1SessionsAdd the session that’s open in Pro Tools, or load several at once. Each one keeps its own bounce list.
  2. 2CreateSet the folder, format, range and mix source in chips, then press Mix, Solo, Mute, Batch or Clips. Presets do both in one click.
  3. 3EditChange one bounce or eight at once, copy a setup onto others, or import last project’s list.
  4. 4RunPress Bounce…, pick the sessions and their order, and walk away. Fast Bounce switches sessions and bounces every file.

Start here

What Fast Bounce doesWho it's for, the four steps every bounce goes through, and what it needs from Pro Tools.Install and sign inRequirements, downloading the app, signing in, and what the Pro Tools badge in the title bar means.Your first bounceFive minutes from an open session to a finished file, touching every part of the app once.

Core concepts

The main windowA tour of the window from the title bar to the footer: the rail, the bounce list, Create bounce and the Bounce button.SessionsAdding the open session, loading many .ptx files at once, and how each session's bounce list travels with it.Bounce creationA bounce is a mode plus a setup: Mix, Solo, Mute, Batch or Clips, and the chips that set its folder, format, range and mix source.Editing a bounceChange one bounce or eight at once, copy settings from one bounce onto others, duplicate, and remove.Import BouncesBring the bounce list of another loaded session into the open one, checked against its tracks, buses and markers first.Naming bouncesWhere a new bounce's name comes from, numbering, naming rules with tokens, and renaming many at once.PresetsSave a bounce as a recipe built around your template, group your recipes, and apply them to any session with a check first.

Bouncing

Running the queueThe Bounce sheet, what happens to each bounce while it runs, pausing and stopping, the Summary and the email report.When something doesn't bounceWhat the badge, the mode buttons and a Failed row are telling you, what to do about each, and how to send a report.

Settings and account

SettingsThe Settings window pane by pane: window and updates, bounce defaults, naming rules, shortcuts, support and account.Account, plans and offline accessWhat the plans include, what the free plan limits, where billing lives, and how offline access works on a perpetual license.Keyboard shortcutsEvery shortcut: the global ones that work while Pro Tools is in front, and the ones inside the Fast Bounce window.