Bouncing

Export, bounce, render: getting a song out of your DAW

Export, bounce and render all mean turning your project into a file: the DAW plays every track through its effects and writes the result as audio. Bounce usually means printing a mix or a track, render is the processing step, and export is the menu that does both. Pick WAV for masters and stems, MP3 for sharing, and MIDI to move notes to another DAW.