Hi there. I've been playing around with stems lately and found the track samples all distort when mastered together. That is leaving them all untouched. I had hoped being stems the samples would be rendered post fx with all volumes applied so when mixed together again the master sits at the right volume. I found this was not the case. I was using Reaper in 64 bit float.

The song i tested was Just A girl by No Doubt. It may have been from a game but not sure of the source. It had a midi file that had more tracks than samples included but all i got was a nice tempo map and no sign of volume envelopes. Perhaps it was the daw.

So is there any way of finding what the volumes are? I wish to use the exact levels the samples need to go back together as intended. After all if a game mixes them in real time it needs to know. ☺