Sorry, the cave has worn off on me. lol
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RAMI
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Actually, I'm not so sure any more, LOL. I just did it again and the wave forms looked the same. But I might have screwed up along the way. I'm too lazy to do the whole copying and pasting and opening new projects again right now. I'll try to confirm it again tomorrow. In the mean time, in case that wasn't the solution, if anyone else thinks they might know what it is, lay it on me.
Thanx.
Thanx.
Armistice
Son of Yoda
Only thing I noticed was that the grid mark difference on the square wave was .003 seconds or thereabouts and on the squiggly wave was .006... but I've never seen a waveform go block as I've scrolled in, so it wouldn't be that...
Maybe there's some setting somewhere that affects the "granularity" of the waveform display at a project level.... it's clearly not just the OV / overheads, all the tracks have it... the two Git tracks look pretty blocky too, clearly something like a drum would be blockier than a guitar, but you can see it's there.
How's the Reaper Evaluation Licence working out for you RAMI?
Maybe there's some setting somewhere that affects the "granularity" of the waveform display at a project level.... it's clearly not just the OV / overheads, all the tracks have it... the two Git tracks look pretty blocky too, clearly something like a drum would be blockier than a guitar, but you can see it's there.
How's the Reaper Evaluation Licence working out for you RAMI?
Armistice
Son of Yoda
Check your settings here in the two projects... see if there's a diffierence mebbe?
Preferences Media Appearance - CockosWiki
Preferences Media Appearance - CockosWiki
gecko zzed
Grumpy Mod
Just for interest, this what I work with. The fuzziness is bleed from bass and guitar
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RAMI
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Only thing I noticed was that the grid mark difference on the square wave was .003 seconds or thereabouts and on the squiggly wave was .006... but I've never seen a waveform go block as I've scrolled in, so it wouldn't be that...
Maybe there's some setting somewhere that affects the "granularity" of the waveform display at a project level.... it's clearly not just the OV / overheads, all the tracks have it... the two Git tracks look pretty blocky too, clearly something like a drum would be blockier than a guitar, but you can see it's there.
How's the Reaper Evaluation Licence working out for you RAMI?
Yeah, I'm still evaluating it.
It's really just a matter of getting around to paying for it. I'm lazy, not cheap. I've spent about $3000 on equipment in the last year, so another $60 isn't going to kill me. Just got to get around to doing it.As far as the waveform is concerned, anybody's waveforms would get big and square like that if you maximised the view vertically and horizontally. I'm not worried about that. I'm concerned with one being "furrier" than the other.
I had thought the Clean figured it out, but then I wasn't sure. But now I'm beginning to think he WAS on the right track, it's got something to do with the options.
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RAMI
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That really helps a lot. I think it has something to do with this. Those different views and options are probably the key to the answer.
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I will. Once I finish ovulating it.Love trying to figure these kinds of problems out. Looks like I arrived too late.
Now, pony up a few bucks and pay for that software.
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Right. That's how my waveforms usually look. But if I had kept them like that, you guys wouldn't have been able to see the difference between the 2.
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Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
I think it's to do with this setting. (See image below) When you zoom far enough in, in track view, you can change the way the waveform is displayed. I remember with older versions of Reaper it looking more like your screenshot but now it doesn't seem so harsh when changed.
I would think that the settings for the files are saved in the .rpf files of your old project and carried over from a previous version of Reaper which is why you see it different. I don't have any old mixes at hand to check right now, but I will have a look later.
I may be wrong though.
I would think that the settings for the files are saved in the .rpf files of your old project and carried over from a previous version of Reaper which is why you see it different. I don't have any old mixes at hand to check right now, but I will have a look later.
I may be wrong though.
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RAMI
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I think it's to do with this setting. (See image below) When you zoom far enough in, in track view, you can change the way the waveform is displayed. I remember with older versions of Reaper it looking more like your screenshot but now it doesn't seem so harsh when changed.
I would think that the settings for the files are saved in the .rpf files of your old project and carried over from a previous version of Reaper which is why you see it different. I don't have any old mixes at hand to check right now, but I will have a look later.
I may be wrong though.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're on the right track with all that. I tried changing some things and some things made a difference and some didn't. But it's not affecting the sound, so I'm pretty sure it's just a visual thing. Which setting, that's still to be determined, but it's most probably just visual and nothing else.
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RAMI
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I think the wiggly waveforms are in projects set to "Stepped samples", and the squarer ones are set to "smooth", or something along those lines.
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RAMI
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Armistice
Son of Yoda
Yeah, I'm still evaluating it.
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LOL - I'm the same with a couple of evaluation plug-ins that I really should sling the maker some shekels for... problem is the recording PC isn't generally connected to the 'net and when the "Pay me!" prompt comes up I can never find the wireless dongle or I'm not connected at my main connection, or, or , or... and I just think "Next time..."
RawDepth
New member
I believe that background noise in the studio can make a waveform look all squiggly like that. For example, there is a big oil burning furnace (high BTU, forced air,) right next to my studio room. In the dead of winter, if I am recording anything acoustic, I need to wait until that big damn thing shuts off before I hit record. Otherwise, I'll have a higher noise floor on my tracks which looks like your squiggly ones.
Schwarzenyaeger
Formerly "Dog-In-Door"
I would have said that it was getting moldy.
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RAMI
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Hmmm....Never though of that. I don't have anything going on in the background, or at least nothing that wasn't there when I had no squiggly waveforms. I wonder if sympathetic ringing from the toms while playing the kit can do it, but even that is no worse now than it was before. You still might have something there, though.
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RAMI
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No it's just a random bass drum hit that I circled. But it doesn't matter what I circled, the whole track is smooth and defined in the first, and the whole track is blurry and squiggly in the second one.
rayc
retroreprobate
I'm quite used to seeing those types of waveforms RAMI. When I use Waverepair to restore vinyl LPs I often increase the magnification of the view so that I can do a little manual editing and redrawing.I start with what you normally see, increase to around the more squiggly of your 1st images to look for deformations/clicks/pops etc and sometimes go as far in as your very 1st screen to do microsurgery.
Attached is a file run through the stages I mentioned.
View attachment wave form view.pdf
Attached is a file run through the stages I mentioned.
View attachment wave form view.pdf