LED Playback Meters (Track/Console views)

[Darren Westlake]

Hi guys

Have searched for this problem on this forum as well as outside....

Couple of weird bugs found with regards to monitoring using LED meters on playback.

1) Using e.g. 4-6 softsynths + 2 tracks for vocals. The soft synths display their playback LED values fine. Stopping, starting, moving to a new marker, etc however can cause the LED playback meter to stop reading on the vocals tracks. You can hear the vocals track but the playback meter shows zero so makes it hard when monitoring/mixdown.  Fix/Workaround: Disable/re-enable insert FX on the vocals channel tends to fix this in most cases.

2) Same as above, except this is more serious. This time it's the Master bus LED meter suddenly stops reading at random. Something is working because although all tracks can be heard in phones/monitors the only feedback I get is that if the Master bus clips I see the red lights display at the top of the LED. Fix/workaround: No real fix except either closing/re-opening project and/or Bandlab itself.

Equipment: Windows 10 CPU i5 4690K 16GB RAM - Focusrite 6i6 . Bandlab is installed on SSD

Anyone have any ideas? Corrupt file maybe?

Many thanks in advance

[Nigel Mackay]

I'd start with an uninstall/reinstall.

[Darren Westlake]

5 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

I'd start with an uninstall/reinstall.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried this and still no fix. However, I've got got some more info which might help others.

I found it was insert effects on the vocals that caused this issue. Disabling all effects on the vocal track, fixed not only the vocal LED but the Master bus LED too.

So then I went, one step further; I DELETED all insert effects on the vocal track and re-applied the effects, saved the project and re-opened the project and this seems to have fixed my problem. Maybe there was a glitch in the file at some point when I originally added the effects.

If anything changes I will update this topic.

Many thanks

Edited March 24, 2020 by Darren Westlake