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OMF doesn't save levels and panning


Jonathan Lindsay

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Exporting as OMF to share across platforms (and even among BandLab users).

When exporting as OMF two things are happening that are really frustrating:

1) All panning and volume settings are reset to 0/center

2) tracks that have breaks in them come back in as "overlap tracks" creating headaches of multiple tracks.

I think the second can be solved with freezing tracks before exporting but the panning issue is a real bother.

Any solutions? Thank you!

 

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i've not used OMF much before, but freezing the track so the panning is embedded in a stereo track audio clip - it creates a stereo clip out of a mono track and the panning levels are embedded in the clip. i tried it with splitting other tracks and it seemed ok but maybe the export processing bounced them?

i would recommend (like any project sharing effort) to bounce tracks to single clips which are then stretched to align on time 0, save the project as a new version of itself to a new folder so only the actual in-use tracks are copied, then export to OMF from there. this would also provide opportunity to change clip sample rates, bit depth etc for your sharing partner.

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JL, did you ever figure this out? The first .omf I exported and opened in Pro Tools worked flawlessly. Since then, however, when I create an .omf, and open it the pans and volumes are reset to flat. Even when I try to open in Cakewalk. 

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