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Friday I pulled out a project I hadn't touched for a couple of months, lots of acoustic tracks and a few vocal tracks. Played with the mix a little, saved it under a new name.
Saturday, opened up the project again to do some new vocal tracks and there was a crackling going on in the playback that had NOT been there the day before. Nothing I tried got rid of it (including rebooting Reaper), so I closed the project out and re-opened the old file, everything was fine. I tracked a few new vocal tracks after muting the old ones, then saved the project under a new name again.
Then yesterday I opened up the project and its crackling again! I finally pinpointed the noise to group I had set up with two guitar mic tracks on it - when I muted that group, the crackling disappeared. When I muted the two guitar tracks and not the group, the crackling also disappeared, so I set up the mics and re-recorded the guitar part (2 mics) and I set them up in the same group folder so I wouldn't have to re-do the volume automation.
On playback the new tracks were crackling! So I figured something was corrupt in the folder itself, so I tried moving/copying the new tracks - only to get a message that it couldn't be done because the 'peak files were missing' - now I could see the waveforms, and heard them (with the crackling), but after this message, when I played the project these new tracks were silent!
I saved and re-loaded the project, but the 'no peaks' message came up with the same playback behaviors.
So I deleted the new tracks, muted the group folder track again, and re-tracked with new tracks not in the folder and everything worked fine. Before deleting that crap folder I looked at the volume envelopes and it looks like (somehow) a second track got inserted on top of one of the existing tracks, but that still shouldn't have caused the things that were happening.
Saturday, opened up the project again to do some new vocal tracks and there was a crackling going on in the playback that had NOT been there the day before. Nothing I tried got rid of it (including rebooting Reaper), so I closed the project out and re-opened the old file, everything was fine. I tracked a few new vocal tracks after muting the old ones, then saved the project under a new name again.
Then yesterday I opened up the project and its crackling again! I finally pinpointed the noise to group I had set up with two guitar mic tracks on it - when I muted that group, the crackling disappeared. When I muted the two guitar tracks and not the group, the crackling also disappeared, so I set up the mics and re-recorded the guitar part (2 mics) and I set them up in the same group folder so I wouldn't have to re-do the volume automation.
On playback the new tracks were crackling! So I figured something was corrupt in the folder itself, so I tried moving/copying the new tracks - only to get a message that it couldn't be done because the 'peak files were missing' - now I could see the waveforms, and heard them (with the crackling), but after this message, when I played the project these new tracks were silent!
I saved and re-loaded the project, but the 'no peaks' message came up with the same playback behaviors.
So I deleted the new tracks, muted the group folder track again, and re-tracked with new tracks not in the folder and everything worked fine. Before deleting that crap folder I looked at the volume envelopes and it looks like (somehow) a second track got inserted on top of one of the existing tracks, but that still shouldn't have caused the things that were happening.