Bizarre tracking issue
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Bizarre tracking issue
Anyone seen this? (DP 8.06) It's only happened to me this one time. The only way to "fix" it was to create a new project and "load" this sequence into it.
The basic issue is that when I was recording (rendering a MIDI track to audio), the displayed soundbite out paced the timeline. The longer I recorded, the farther ahead it got. When I stopped recording, the (displayed) soundbite was significantly shorter than the actual data. If I played it, it played through to the end of the recording (but beyond the soundbite edge) as expected. If I tried to edge-edit the soundbite so I could see it, I got the circle-slash cursor. If I switched to the trim tool, it acted even more bizarre.
I've written a tech-link on it FWIW.
The basic issue is that when I was recording (rendering a MIDI track to audio), the displayed soundbite out paced the timeline. The longer I recorded, the farther ahead it got. When I stopped recording, the (displayed) soundbite was significantly shorter than the actual data. If I played it, it played through to the end of the recording (but beyond the soundbite edge) as expected. If I tried to edge-edit the soundbite so I could see it, I got the circle-slash cursor. If I switched to the trim tool, it acted even more bizarre.
I've written a tech-link on it FWIW.
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Chuck
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Re: Bizarre tracking issue
Never saw that but I'd toggle punch-guard and try again. It's the first thing that comes to mind. No, it's not supposed to work that way and probably isn't the cause, but it does effect how DP 8 treats recording time. Worth a shot.
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Re: Bizarre tracking issue
Haven't seen that one. Sorry.
Would you let us know what MOTU says?
Shooshie
Would you let us know what MOTU says?
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Re: Bizarre tracking issue
Out of curiosity, could you tell us what the following settings are for that soundbite?
1) sample rate
2) bit resolution
3) file type (WAV, AIFF, etc.)
If you look in the soundbites window, can you see if there are multiple sample rates in the list, or multiples of any of the other settings? Usually, they should all be the same for one project, though it's possible to have others. DP usually handles all that without error.
Shoosh
1) sample rate
2) bit resolution
3) file type (WAV, AIFF, etc.)
If you look in the soundbites window, can you see if there are multiple sample rates in the list, or multiples of any of the other settings? Usually, they should all be the same for one project, though it's possible to have others. DP usually handles all that without error.
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Re: Bizarre tracking issue
Knowing your machine and hardware, RAM, etc., would be... helpful.
Re: Bizarre tracking issue
I wasn't really wanting to troubleshoot this, as I've only seen it once and have moved on. I was curious though if anyone else had seen it.Shooshie wrote:Out of curiosity, could you tell us what the following settings are for that soundbite?
1) sample rate
2) bit resolution
3) file type (WAV, AIFF, etc.)
If you look in the soundbites window, can you see if there are multiple sample rates in the list, or multiples of any of the other settings? Usually, they should all be the same for one project, though it's possible to have others. DP usually handles all that without error.
Shoosh
But since you asked:
The project has about a dozen MIDI tracks (output to external devices), no audio tracks. I was in the process of rendering the MIDI tracks, one by one, to audio. This was the first one. The project is using internal clock, 44.1kHz, 24 bits, WAV.
I blame it on a corrupt project file. I created a new project with the same defaults, Loaded that sequence into it and record worked fine on all tracks.
Thanks.
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Re: Bizarre tracking issue
Yeah, you're probably right; just a corrupted file.
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Shooshie
Cosmic waves.
Quantum zombies
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