I mixed a song in Waveform. Exported it to a stereo wav file. When I import this same file into a new project it is re-rendered which results in the song playing too fast. Any idea what's going on here? Bit depth and sample rate has not changed.
If I import this file into Reaper, it plays normally.
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Importing a stereo mix - song is sped up
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- KVRian
- 500 posts since 3 Dec, 2021
Check if the imported file has autopitch or autotempo enabled. If so turn it off and see if that solves it. When rendering or exporting there is a check box to 'Add ACID Tempo/Note Info'. This will mean tempo and pitch settings are written into the file. For a full mix you might not need this, unless perhaps for dj purposes?
If it's not that I have no idea.
If it's not that I have no idea.
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- KVRAF
- 4890 posts since 3 Jan, 2003 from Vancouver
Imported audio since 12.5 is set to auto-detect tempo by default. Waveform scans the audio and tries to find the tempo, then after it believes it's found the tempo, it matches the audio clip tempo to the tempo of the Edit.
This can be confusing.
To restore an audio clip to normal, first expand the Control Panel at the bottom to what I call "Useful Mode" or select the Actions tab of the Browser. If an audio clip is selected, the Control Panel will have a "Loop Properties" tab that includes a check-box for Auto-Tempo. The same check-box is available in the Actions tab. After it is un-checked you may still need to stretch the audio clip to its proper length using the empty arrow at the top right of the clip.
To stop this from happening again, go to Settings -> General -> Editing and de-select the "Detect tempo of imported audio files" setting.
You can always turn the clip's Auto-Tempo on when you want that to happen. You can also use the tempo settings in the Control Panel to make adjustments if Waveform doesn't scan the tempo correctly. I find that I sometimes need to change the number of beats to get the correct tempo.
This can be confusing.
To restore an audio clip to normal, first expand the Control Panel at the bottom to what I call "Useful Mode" or select the Actions tab of the Browser. If an audio clip is selected, the Control Panel will have a "Loop Properties" tab that includes a check-box for Auto-Tempo. The same check-box is available in the Actions tab. After it is un-checked you may still need to stretch the audio clip to its proper length using the empty arrow at the top right of the clip.
To stop this from happening again, go to Settings -> General -> Editing and de-select the "Detect tempo of imported audio files" setting.
You can always turn the clip's Auto-Tempo on when you want that to happen. You can also use the tempo settings in the Control Panel to make adjustments if Waveform doesn't scan the tempo correctly. I find that I sometimes need to change the number of beats to get the correct tempo.
Surely there must be consensus by now...
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 23 Jul, 2020
did something change about this recently? I've been having this issue as well (although my tracks were slowed down) and it never happened in the past. I turned off "detect tempo" which seemed to work, but I made a new project and tried it again, I confirmed "detect tempo" is still unchecked but when I imported a clip it still ended up with "Auto-Tempo" turned on.
also, probably another issue but I was trying to "render to a file" (mp3) and the first 30-50 seconds (it was not consistent) of the exported file was completely silent, then the audio would eventually start playing from that time (i.e. the first 30-50 seconds of the actual audio was missing). Playing the file in Waveform sounded fine. I looked for an hour for some kind of automation or fade in or whatever and didn't find it. "Remove silence" in the export dialog didn't change the behavior other than actually removing the "silence" from the start, so the truncaled audio starts immediately. Disabling plugins didn't help. Making a new project did fix the issue but I still have the original project if there's any useful data I can collect from it.
i use this workflow pretty often: I record live sets on a Tascam DR-40, import the wav file into tracktion, delete the parts of the clip before and after the actual music, then run https://loudmax.blogspot.com/ to normalize the volume (I keep the levels on the recorder pretty low so I don't have to worry about clipping, since you don't need ~100dB dynamic range for a live recording anyways.
also, probably another issue but I was trying to "render to a file" (mp3) and the first 30-50 seconds (it was not consistent) of the exported file was completely silent, then the audio would eventually start playing from that time (i.e. the first 30-50 seconds of the actual audio was missing). Playing the file in Waveform sounded fine. I looked for an hour for some kind of automation or fade in or whatever and didn't find it. "Remove silence" in the export dialog didn't change the behavior other than actually removing the "silence" from the start, so the truncaled audio starts immediately. Disabling plugins didn't help. Making a new project did fix the issue but I still have the original project if there's any useful data I can collect from it.
i use this workflow pretty often: I record live sets on a Tascam DR-40, import the wav file into tracktion, delete the parts of the clip before and after the actual music, then run https://loudmax.blogspot.com/ to normalize the volume (I keep the levels on the recorder pretty low so I don't have to worry about clipping, since you don't need ~100dB dynamic range for a live recording anyways.