Exporting an audio file is messed up (!!!!!)

[audiobot202]

Thanks guys... I've had a few issues myself, with VST's like StormDrum, missing bars when rendering. Some other VST's too, I don't remember all details (I don't want to think about it). Even when freezing tracks the sound is not what it should be, and without freezing my CPU gets too hot.

Good suggestions to use TapeIt or eXT. Of course I have both, but always tried to figure it out in Tracktion instead of using an easy workaround.

I use Tapeit on the Master out when recording a whole track. Works fine, seems to take little CPU and the results are exactly what you hear and nothing else. I actually think the results sound really good through this plug. Better than internal rendering in my own experience. It is unfortunate though.

[mle]

Hey, I've been having a rendering problem; maybe it's related?

My latest song starts with a low bass gong-like sound. When I play the song back in Tracktion, that initial bass sound is overly loud and very distorted. Once Tracktion has played a couple measures, I can rewind and it plays back just fine.

This didn't concern me too much. I mean, it's certainly disturbing that Tracktion plays back differently depending on whether it's "warmed up". But I get a lot of glitchy playback in Tracktion; as long as it renders out fine, I don't usually worry about it.

But when I render this song, the initial bass note comes out distorted. So the rendering sounds like Tracktion when it is not "pre-played". This is a real problem for me. Anyone know how to make Tracktion's rendering not distort the first few seconds of audio?

[IndiQa]

USE TAPEIT 2 !!!!

[mle]

In many sections of my song, the playback is too intensive for my computer. So tapeit is not a solution for me. I require some sort of rendering/export solution.

[Daniel78]

Hey, I've been having a rendering problem; maybe it's related?

My latest song starts with a low bass gong-like sound. When I play the song back in Tracktion, that initial bass sound is overly loud and very distorted. Once Tracktion has played a couple measures, I can rewind and it plays back just fine.

This didn't concern me too much. I mean, it's certainly disturbing that Tracktion plays back differently depending on whether it's "warmed up". But I get a lot of glitchy playback in Tracktion; as long as it renders out fine, I don't usually worry about it.

But when I render this song, the initial bass note comes out distorted. So the rendering sounds like Tracktion when it is not "pre-played". This is a real problem for me. Anyone know how to make Tracktion's rendering not distort the first few seconds of audio?

When you rewind a track, the audio buffer doesn't always seem to get cleared, so you end up with - for example - the reverb trail from the end of the track getting played at the start. Could this be whats happening? If you turn on End-to-End briefly you can get it to clear before you start playback. Its annoying but I've just got into the habit of doing it everytime i need to render a track.

Also, if its a midi track, you might have a controller still "set" from the previous playback position. I'm not sure they always get reset properly. eg. a sustain pedal might have been on, and when you hit rewind it didn't get switched off. Not sure whtat the best work-around here is, but if you find the guilty controller you could explicitly turn it off before your first note.

Anyway, not sure if either of these are your problem, but thought it might help

[mle]

I'm talking about audio here, not MIDI. Sorry I didn't clarify that in my first post.

Hmm, that's an interesting observation. I'll do some experimenting with that. Offhand, I don't think that's what's going on here. If anything this seems to be an opposite problem.

In my case, the distortion occurs on the first play, but _doesn't_ occur if I have "rewound" right to the spot.

I never thought about Tracktion's buffering behavior, but maybe that's playing a role. Your post makes me wonder if maybe Tracktion has some sort of bug with the way it fills the audio buffer before your first play of a track (or before a rendering).

When you turn on End-to-End, do you do it on a per track basis, or for the whole mix? I think that by default, I have End-to-end enabled, but I have to go double-check. Frankly, I can't even remember what end-to-end does. Can you remind me what the point of it is?

Thanks,

Mark

[Daniel78]

I'm talking about audio here, not MIDI. Sorry I didn't clarify that in my first post.

Hmm, that's an interesting observation. I'll do some experimenting with that. Offhand, I don't think that's what's going on here. If anything this seems to be an opposite problem.

In my case, the distortion occurs on the first play, but _doesn't_ occur if I have "rewound" right to the spot.

I never thought about Tracktion's buffering behavior, but maybe that's playing a role. Your post makes me wonder if maybe Tracktion has some sort of bug with the way it fills the audio buffer before your first play of a track (or before a rendering).

When you turn on End-to-End, do you do it on a per track basis, or for the whole mix? I think that by default, I have End-to-end enabled, but I have to go double-check. Frankly, I can't even remember what end-to-end does. Can you remind me what the point of it is?

Thanks,

Mark

EtoE just allows you to preview audio before recording it. ie. the audio will go from the inputs through all the effects and back out to the soundcard. i turn it on/off for the whole mix for this "fix". i usually have it off (to save cpu) - by temporarily switching it on, i'm just allowing the buffer to finish playing and hence empty itself.

like you say though, this sounds like the opposite to what you're experiencing, i haven't come across this (or any) problem on a first play (i don't think...). it's only when i've rewound, which i guess would suggest it isn't the cause of your problem...