Hi,
I've been working on a song where I've been splitting up audio clips in Tracktion into smaller bits to move around. I just selected one clip and edited it in Cool Edit (via Ctrl-W in Tracktion), closed Cool Edit, saying yes to save everything.
Now, my clip appears empty in the track and makes no sound when played using the transport buttons. However, when this clip is selected and 'View Source Info' is clicked, the waveform appears in the bottom window and can be played there.
What the *%$! ?????
Any ideas ?
Surely this has to be a bug ?? Don't tell me it's a 'feature' !!
Disappearing clip contents ??
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 43 posts since 23 May, 2004
I've just discovered something else ! If I try to move the 'vacant' clip (or any of the adjacent ones that make up the overall part - also vacant), they vanish !!
Just to give a bit more info, what I did was record a guitar part as one clip. I then decided to adjust the timings of various bits of it, so split the clip into several smaller parts and moved them back and fore until I was happy with the result. Then, I decided to edit one part and opened it in Cool Edit, where, to my surprise, the *complete* original waveform appeared for editing, not just the one segment I was expecting. Either way, I made a tiny adjustment to the waveform and exited Cool Edit, overwriting the file with the new version.
..and 'Abracadabra' - lots of empty clips and no sound !
Just to give a bit more info, what I did was record a guitar part as one clip. I then decided to adjust the timings of various bits of it, so split the clip into several smaller parts and moved them back and fore until I was happy with the result. Then, I decided to edit one part and opened it in Cool Edit, where, to my surprise, the *complete* original waveform appeared for editing, not just the one segment I was expecting. Either way, I made a tiny adjustment to the waveform and exited Cool Edit, overwriting the file with the new version.
..and 'Abracadabra' - lots of empty clips and no sound !
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- KVRAF
- 2417 posts since 17 Jun, 2003
The clips in tracktion are not edits of the original waveform, think of them like a mask over the waveform, or a window through which you hear them. In other words, it's non-destructive editing.
If you edit one of them in an external editor, you have to edit the entire file, not just the segment you can see in tracktion, unless you render the individual bits down to new wav files.
You've probably editted in cool edit in such a way that the window no longer covers a bit that has sound. Without having a scooby doo what you've done in Cool Edit though, it's hard to say
If you edit one of them in an external editor, you have to edit the entire file, not just the segment you can see in tracktion, unless you render the individual bits down to new wav files.
You've probably editted in cool edit in such a way that the window no longer covers a bit that has sound. Without having a scooby doo what you've done in Cool Edit though, it's hard to say
"my gosh it's a friggin hardware"