Manual - Bounce Butler

Automated Bounce Management For Your DAW.

One App To Rule The DAWs.
Save incredible amounts of time by batch exporting your bounces and stems. Bounce Butler babysits your bounces and texts you when it's done.

Supports all popular DAWs
Bounce mixes, stems, & masters
SMS Text Alerts
SMS Progress Reports
Custom Bounce Naming
Bounce To Custom Folders
Multiple Bounce Formats

Automated Bounce Management For Your DAW.

Knowledgebase

How To Use Bounce Butler

Selecting Sessions

Selecting Files With Smart Folders

Bouncing With Markers In Pro Tools

Notifications

Bouncing Offline in Pro Tools

Bounce Butler "Accessibility Control" In System Preferences

Setting up Cubase

Logic Pro X stems with Bounce Butler

Uninstalling Bounce Butler

Deleting Bounce Butler Preferences

Remove Bounce Butler Subscription ID

macOS System Control Workaround

How To Use Bounce Butler

Open Bounce Butler and select a bunch of session files that you want bounced.
Select the options for the type of files you want bounced from the sessions.
Enter a phone number or email address that you want notifications sent too.
Press bounce and walk away. Bounce Butler will notify you when he's done.

Selecting Sessions

Using "List Mode" lets you select more than one session across multiple folders easily. You can also add more sessions later by clicking the "Add Sessions" button after selecting some sessions.

Selecting Files With Smart Folders

Selecting lots of session files is WAY fast if you use smart folders... here's a gif & a video on how to do that.

Bouncing With Markers In Pro Tools

If you have a marker numbered as "998" at the start of a session, and a marker labeled "999" at the end, Bounce Butler can bounce the part of the session that is between those markers.

Notifications

Bounce Butler can text your OR email you when he's done bouncing. All you have to do is enter your contact info. If you're outside of the United States, you'll need to be sure to enter the proper country code if you'd like a text message. Bounce Butler's servers are in the US, so you'll need to enter your number in a way that would make your number reachable from the US.

Bouncing Offline in Pro Tools

Using something other than the default selection for bouncing is something we're working on improving.

Currently with Pro Tools 2019.6 and later, Bounce Butler gives you the option to bounce between markers 998 & 999. Our hope is to add those features to earlier versions of Pro Tools.

Bounce Butler "Accessibility Control" In System Preferences

Setting up Cubase

Cubase needs a custom "Key Command" for Bounce Butler to be able to set up bounces for you. This should only take you a few seconds to set up.

Logic Pro X stems with Bounce Butler

The easiest way to make stems with Logic is to save your session as a "Folder" instead of a "Package". This allows you to easily solo out any stem you want to bounce, and then save it as it's own session. You can then select as many of these Logic Pro X session files as you want with Bounce Butler.

Uninstalling Bounce Butler

Drag the Bounce Butler app to your Trash.
(Optional) Remove your license files:
- Open Finder and click the "Go" menu.
- Select "Go To Folder"
- Type in "~/Library/Application Support/"
- Delete "Bounce_Butler.txt"

If you're reinstalling the app to fix an issue, be SURE to follow the instructions on how to give Bounce Butler Accessibility Permission.

Deleting Bounce Butler Preferences

Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app) and paste the following code:

defaults delete Chris-Graham-Mastering.Bounce-Butler

For Bounce Butler Beta, use:

defaults delete Chris-Graham-Mastering.Bounce-Butler-Beta

Remove Bounce Butler Subscription ID

Open Finder and click the "Go" menu.
Select "Go To Folder"
Type in "~/Library/Application Support/"
Delete "Bounce_Butler.txt"

macOS System Control Workaround

Sometimes macOS doesn't want to give Bounce Butler system control. To get around this, follow the instructions below:

Close Bounce Butler
Delete Bounce Butler
Open System Preferences and go "Security & Privacy > Privacy"
In the left column, select "Accessibility"
In the right column, find Bounce Butler, select it, and then click the "-" button at the bottom
Keep System Preferences open
Download the latest version of Bounce Butler or Bounce Butler Beta
Move Bounce Butler to your Applications folder
Open Bounce Butler

Bounce Butler will submit a new request to macOS to control your system. It should appear in the Accessibility apps in Systems Preferences.

Need Support?

License Code*
Your license code is on your welcome email, and every invoice email as well.
Name
First Last
Email*
What sort of support do you need?*
Account issues
Please select your problem...*
Tell us about your problem:*
Bounce Butler is a self service app that you can cancel at any time through clicking the "My Account" section of the menu bar.
We don't normally provide refunds as Bounce Butler is a self service app that you can cancel at any time through clicking the "My Account" section of the menu bar. There are a few cases where we do provide refunds if we've made a mistake. Please tell us all the details- what we did wrong, and why you feel a refund would make it right.
Refund request:
Tech Support
What is your tech support question about?*
Check the manual first by selecting "Support" in the menu bar of Bounce Butler while he's open. Once you're sure your issue hasn't been covered, please change your answer above to "other" to continue.
DAW info
What DAW do you use?*
What version is your DAW?
What Mac OS version are you using?
What language is your computer and DAW set to?
(Bounce Butler has recently been having trouble with languages other than English.)
What kind of computer are you using?
ie: "2017 iMac"
How many apps did you have running in the background?
Have you tried restarting your computer and exiting all apps except your DAW and Bounce Butler?
(Dropbox, Keyboard Maestro, etc.)
Tried everything above and can't get it working?
If you've had the same user account on your Mac- it's possible that there is some old software causing issues with BB. The only way to isolate this issue is to make a new user account on your computer, and then have BB bounce a few session files with no plugins on them. Your issue could be stemming from either a plugin with some weird code too, and this little test completely isolates the issue.
Did you find a bug in "Bounce Butler" or "Bounce Butler Beta"?*
"Bounce Butler Beta" is an experimental version with newer features, but it is usually less stable. To download it, go to https://www.bouncebutler.com/beta
Describe your issue.
Submit a short video of your issue. (Optional)
To get the fastest support, record a screen capture video of your issue with Loom It's free, super easy to use and amazing.
"Error message".
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How To Use Bounce Butler

Selecting Sessions

Selecting Files With Smart Folders

Bouncing With Markers In Pro Tools

Notifications

Bouncing Offline in Pro Tools

Bounce Butler "Accessibility Control" In System Preferences

Setting up Cubase

Logic Pro X stems with Bounce Butler

Uninstalling Bounce Butler

Deleting Bounce Butler Preferences

Remove Bounce Butler Subscription ID

macOS System Control Workaround

Need Support?

Account issues

Tech Support

DAW info