Why does my reverb keep resetting itself?

[Dave Wiz]

I added reverb to a track and for some strange reason when I hit the spacebar (or click on start playing) the reverb sets itself all to 0.
I can reposition the settings while its playing, I know its not an automated thing, but when I stop playing as soon as I press play again it does exactly the same thing again.

Just an aside. How do you guys go about a final mix.
If I export a song I find that the resulting quality is nowhere near as good as what comes from Tracktion itself. I have been recording and saving them on minidisk which is pretty close to cd quality but is there a way to save them good enough to burn on cd.
I used to use Acid music and that would burn direct to cd and that was quite an old program.

Keep up the good advice.
Cheers.

By the way. Tracktion is absolutley ace with wav files. I have become a dab hand at cutting and looping stuff and making my own mash-ups. I think it is a very underexploited feature.

[djsubject]

ok i'm still hearing the autamation bell ringing in my head! dose this happen in all projects? or only 1?

sorry there isint any thing else i can think of

[valley]

I added reverb to a track and for some strange reason when I hit the spacebar (or click on start playing) the reverb sets itself all to 0.
I can reposition the settings while its playing, I know its not an automated thing, but when I stop playing as soon as I press play again it does exactly the same thing again.

Are you sure you have no automation set up?

Which reverb plug is it? Does it resond to MIDI program changes, 'cos in the same way that you've probably experienced the "my synth keeps resetting" thing at least once, somethign similar could be happening on your reverb.

Just an aside. How do you guys go about a final mix.
If I export a song I find that the resulting quality is nowhere near as good as what comes from Tracktion itself.

I think at least some of the "lost quality when mixing down thing" is an illusion, but a couple of things to bear in mind:

1) use dither to smoothen the reduction in bit depth.

2) make sure your levels on mix down use as much of the dynamic range as possible without clipping. Normalise is useful, but try to get it as good as possible with the master level control first.

3) use a spectral analyser to mae sure you don't have huge amounts of inaudible low frequencies eating up your dynamic range (you'll be surprised how much is going on at 10-20hz on the average vsti output.