Exporting Audio error?

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Im trying to export some tracks from Cubase Sx to dump into Adobe Audition. I've been able to export a few tracks succesfully but now I am getting "An error has occured during audio mixdown" whenever I click the export audio function. I read through the manual and don't see anything about this. Does anyone know what might be causing this? I've got the start and end points set and the track solo'd. Im not sure if there is some other option that should or should not be checked to keep this from occuring.
 
Do you have the Left and Right location points set properly?
 
I've got the left set at the start and the right set at the end of the track. I think its set properly? The portion I want to export is highlighted in grey.
 
Try unSOLO'ing the track and muting all others. I've had this occur when I SOLO a track, and for some reason, the Master output got muted along with all other tracks (never figured out why the Master got muited when I solo'd, but anyways...)
 
hmmm interesting, I will go try that now. As always, thanks for the help bruce.
 
have you checked which way the marker heads are pointing. They should be inverted. You can have them the other way and it will look like you marked out you area correctly but won't export.
 
Oddly enough, I had the same problem. "an error has occurred" with no explanation. Nothing in the manual on the problem. I had to move the left locater selecter just a pinch to the right, and then it worked fine. Don't understand why, but it did.

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Help!

I tried all these solutions, and still no dice.
 
Try bouncing instead...

1. Use the range tool and select across tracks for the length of the song.

2. Menu - Audio - "Bounce Selection"

That's the standard way of creating contiguous files for loading into anotther daw like Audition. No matter where you hit it the tracks will always line up time-wise. It's independent of the loop points so you don't have to set those.

If your File/Export isn't working that may work... or not.

Either way, when you fix the issue you probably should be bouncing anyway for sending multiple files out for loading into Audition (or any other daw) later... unless you want to capture the eq/dsp/and post fader levels in the file... the you would export or render.

Bounce selection is faster and easier as you don't have to do anything but select the range and click the menu item. It copies the raw audio files (without FX or any dsp) to new files for the selected range... which is what you usually want when you archive for loading into another daw.

The only downside (oversight?) is that it puts all of the files in the audio pool when it should give you a choice of doing that or putting them in a seperate folder somewhere. No biggie, go to the audio pool folder (from Audition import function) and view the folder as 'details sorted by date' and they'll all be at the top and all be the exact same size, so it'll be easy to tell what they are from the other Cubase pool files.

If the bounce also errors out... I can't help you.

P.S. You should always "bounce selection" of the entire song when you are finished tracking and or rendering VSTI tracks and stash it. This is your "daw proof" safety copy.

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Audio Cave, thanks... very clear and helpful.

I'm not really even trying to do anything that complicated-- just mixing down with fx and automation to stereo for burning onto a CD, not for importing into any other program. A demo for my Jazz combo.

I got things sort of working by sliding the markers a little bit and restarting everything a few times. Then it got working. I saved it as "stereo interleaved" 16 bit 44.1 (I recorded at 16 bit 44.1)

Those files wound up working, (they played fine in Windows Media)

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So this is my *new* snafu: when I tried to burn 8 songs onto a CD rom in audio CD format, Windows Media did some kind of conversion to each before writing to the CD. Playing it back on my stereo, one channel would cut in and out and go staticky during quiet passages.... I could save to a data CD, but not an audio CD. Win Media was all telling me how the files "might not fit" etc. Strange.

Is it the interleaved thing? Should I export as stereo split?

I will go and bounce the tracks as you suggested to see if this works, too.

Thanks again.
 
Obi-Wan zenabI said:
Audio Cave, thanks... very clear and helpful.

I'm not really even trying to do anything that complicated-- just mixing down with fx and automation to stereo for burning onto a CD, not for importing into any other program. A demo for my Jazz combo.
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Sorry. When you said...
Im trying to export some tracks from Cubase Sx to dump into Adobe Audition. I've been able to export a few tracks succesfully but now I am getting "An error has occured during audio mixdown" whenever I click the export audio function.
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I took that to mean "individual tracks" not "mixes". Glad you got it working.
 
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Cave, that earlier post wasn't me... I just did a search and tacked my own pitiful cry for help :rolleyes: to someone else's.... ;)

I was getting the same message in cubase LE.

Thanks, though. I'm such a noob that I didn't even know how to bounce tracks yet, so thanks.
 
This might not be related but I get that warning sometimes if I'm exporting to a disk that's almost full. For instance, if there's only 100mb left on one of my hard drives I'll get an i/o error message but it doesn't tell me that it's cause the disc is full.
 
Thanks. I have everything working now. Couldn't tell you which piece of advice finally worked, though! If I hadn't been in such a rush to get the demo out, I woulda taken notes on what I was clicking on...

Oh well. It's all good now.
 
One thing that always worked for me with this error, is to let the export run, and don't do anything else, i.e. switch to other programs. It's really terrible programming by Steinberg, but it works for me.
 
Obi-Wan zenabI said:
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So this is my *new* snafu: when I tried to burn 8 songs onto a CD rom in audio CD format, Windows Media did some kind of conversion to each before writing to the CD. Playing it back on my stereo, one channel would cut in and out and go staticky during quiet passages.... I could save to a data CD, but not an audio CD. Win Media was all telling me how the files "might not fit" etc. Strange.

Is it the interleaved thing? Should I export as stereo split?

I will go and bounce the tracks as you suggested to see if this works, too.

Thanks again.
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When you go to burn your cd make sure the files are all 16/44.1 and use stereo interleaved. Your cd recording software will convert the files to cda format which can only be played on a cd rom.

Guessing at the reason that playback on your stereo causes one channel to cut in and out and go staticky during quiet passages.., I'm going to say is because your burner caused too many errors on the disk while burning and your stereo's cd rom cannot keep up to the amount of errors it is reading. Try burning at a slower speed and use better cd-r's.
 
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When you go to burn your cd make sure the files are all 16/44.1 and use stereo interleaved. Your cd recording software will convert the files to cda format which can only be played on a cd rom.

Guessing at the reason that playback on your stereo causes one channel to cut in and out and go staticky during quiet passages.., I'm going to say is because your burner caused too many errors on the disk while burning and your stereo's cd rom cannot keep up to the amount of errors it is reading. Try burning at a slower speed and use better cd-r's.
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Will do. I found some interconnect issues going on with my stereo that I believe were causing some problems.

I did see the cda files added in after windows media "converted" the .wav files.
 
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