What happened to my audio clip?

[DallasSteve]

I was recording some vocals with a microphone.  A couple of clips got muted.  I don't know how that happened.  Maybe I accidentally clicked something.  I outlined the problem clips in red below.  So I un-muted the clips, but they are still silent and they appear different than the other audio clips.  What does that mean and how can I fix them?

[David Baay]

As noted, region muting/umuting requires dragging across the region to be muted/unmuted, not just clicking as you would to mute/unmute the whole clip

 

 

[David Baay]

Region muting documentation showing the dotted waveform outline:

https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=4&help=Arranging.49.html

[GreenLight]

The dotted outline on the waveform indicates that specific portion has been muted with the mute tool. To unmute, use the mute tool and drag in the lower part of the muted part. See details in the manual below. (Maybe the PDF manual is more up to date, but I think the online version below should be accurate.)

Mute tool
https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Tools.16.html

All the best! 😀

[DallasSteve]

GreenLight

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't solve my problem.  When I click with the Mute tool and it is muted, it is silent.  When I click again and it is not muted, it is still silent.  I also tried dragging with the tool (all of this seems pointless to me) it still is silent.

[DallasSteve]

I went ahead and re-recorded the vocal so I could complete the song.  Still, if someone knows what was making this un-muted clip silent, I'd like to know.

[Kurre]

Probably some background process taking the focus away from the audio interface.

Cakewalk knows that there should be sound there and outlines it but the audio interface can't fill it with sound. Until the background process is finished and lets the audio interface take control again.