Daniel Rippe

After more extensive testing, I can now reliably reproduce this bug. It happens when exporting WAV and MP3 audio. I have not tested the other audio formats. I have a simple project with one track and one clip. The FIRST time I export audio after opening the project, the Clip Gain is included. The SECOND time I export, the Clip Gain is ignored. I am doing nothing other than opening the project, then exporting the same audio twice. If I move the clip forward or backward in time, the next export is fine, but the one after that, again, ignores the Clip Gain. Bouncing to Clips and/or Flattening Comp sometimes resolves this, but not always. Even after bouncing or flattening the Clip Gain is sometimes ignored, but not always.

This is a bug in Cakewalk that needs to be fixed. Clip Gain adjustments are ignored if you export audio to a WAV file, but not for MP3. I'm exporting using the Export Audio menu or icon, either one. Yes, the export options include Clip Automation. Use track automation instead? If Cakewalk has Clip Automation, it should work. As for bouncing the comped track or Flatten comp... this is NOT necessary to get the Clip Automation included when I export to MP3, so it shouldn't be required when exporting to WAV.

Sometimes Clip Gain automation is ignored when exporting audio. For me, some clips with a gain envelope are handled just fine when exporting audio, others have their gain envelope ignored. See two attached screen shots. PLEASE NOTE: The Clip Inspector Properties shows Automation Read IS CHECKED (i.e., ON). There are NO REGION FX. In fact, no FX whatsoever. There are NO sends to any buses. If I move this clip to any other timeline position, the Clip Gain is no longer ignored when exporting the audio, OR a different problem occurs: The Clip Gain is treated as -INF (negative infinity) for the beginning of the clip up to the point where the envelope rises for the first time. If I insert another blank audio track anywhere, the Clip Gain is no longer ignored when exporting the audio (on the first try). Then after saving the .CWP file, the Clip Gain is again immediately ignored when exporting audio. THIS PROBLEM is EXTREMELY HARD to discover when you have many tracks and many clips. How do you know which Clip Gain envelopes are being ignored during export and which ones are not? I have done extensive testing and discovered that if I “Flatten Comp” for all tracks that use Clip Gain, then the export seems to include Clip Gain automation adjustments. For now, anyway ... until it doesn't ...