Hellllllllpppppp!!

[chrisharris]

Okay, here's a new one for me. I've got about 10 tracks recorded. They play back perfectly in the multitrack, but when I go to mix them down, it's only mixing down about the first :30 seconds...then there's 3 minutes of what looks like nothing, but pegs the meters at clipping.

(see picture).

So far I've tried.

1. Exiting out of the program and restarting;
2. "Save Session As" another name;
3. Exiting out of the program, rebooting machine, starting old and new sessions;
4. cursing extensively
5. Posting this here.

If it makes a difference, the session started with a couple of MP3's, but I immediately converted them to waves and saved them as such in the session...b/c I know the program freaks out sometimes when it's trying to mix mp3's with waves.

help?

[lpdeluxe]

Whoa Charlie! I've never seen that before. And I hope I don't see it soon...I'll track this thread to see if there's an answer. Why don't you try an "unreconstituted" mix of all .wav files?

[wockachucka]

Yikes.

Sometimes CEP does weird things like giving an ugly clip here and there during playback when there's no reason that it should. I usually have fixed this by moving the .wav from Track 5 to track 7. I haven't experienced what you're dealing with, but......

Have you tried deleting the session and then recreating it with all the same .wav files? That's the first thing I'd do.

[Dakota]

It's odd that this happens at exactly 30 seconds. Wasn't the demo version limited to 30 seconds or something? Maybe the program got corrupted and reverted partially to demo mode.... Does it do this for every session now? If it does, you may want to try reinstalling CEP.

[chrisharris]

Hey guys...thanks for the replies. I got it mixed down. I was trying everything, like just highlighting all the waves in the middle of the song for about 1 minute of music...and all that worked flawlessly, lol...

I was gonna' try mixing down each track individually and then mixing THOSE together, but I "fixed" it by locking every track that had a plug on it. For some reason, when it made copies of those tracks for locking and then mixed them down, it did fine.

wockachucka - yeah, I've experienced that "phantom clipping" phenomenon before on a few occasions. Usually, just closing the session fixes it, lol. I've also mixed stuff down before where for some strange reason, there's just about 5 seconds of horrendous white noise clipping the crap out of the mix. It's software...weird stuff is gonna' happen sometimes, but this one was a noodle-scratcher.

Again, thanks guys.

[dobro]

"Sometimes CEP does weird things like giving an ugly clip here and there during playback when there's no reason that it should. I usually have fixed this by moving the .wav from Track 5 to track 7."

Hmm, good idea - I'll try that next time. It happens to me on flute tracks. It's making me superstitious, thinking there's something about flute that triggers the screaming white noise glitch, but a digital sample's a digital sample, right? Doesn't matter if it's flute or a fart, right?

[scottyd]

hmmm a flute or a fart lol

[lpdeluxe]

Glad to help.

[wockachucka]

Glad it's fixed!

Yeah, Track 5 to Track 7 was just an example, of course, it could be any track to any other. Something about making a subtle change with how the program sees it's own session. I think it's a bug in the programming, but thankfully, it's remedied pretty easily.

[crispycutz]

jus 2 add, that ish happens when i use the eq on the multitrack view for each track. some times a db here or there triggers that kink...