Exporting Audio (Mixdown)

[dahjah]

Since latest update when I exort audio to to mp3 (320) I'm getting a skip in the song everytime as if the needle skipped on a record. When I try it again the skip moves to a different spot. This has happened on two different tracks I'm working on.

Anybody else notice this?

[martsave martin s]

could it be a 'demo' plugin that make silence time to time??

[Rickddd]

I'm not getting that.  Mine works fine.  What Martsave suggested could very well be the culprit.  As a quick test, disable all effects universally - does it still have silent moments?

 

[dahjah]

no demo plugins, still trying different things to track it down.

[Gswitz]

Try bouncing to a new track.  Does that have the problem? 

[dahjah]

34 minutes ago, Gswitz said:

Try bouncing to a new track.  Does that have the problem? 

That seems to be even worse, it creates just over a minute of silence (flat line) in the song. Gonna try a couple more songs to see if I get the same result again.

[Gswitz]

Are your tracks muted? Did you select them?  Ctrl+a?

Edited August 27, 2021 by Gswitz

[dahjah]

nothing muted all tracks selected. I'm baffled, this makes no sense. Tomorrow I'll create another same track with "save as" and delete everything I've done and starting adding one thing at a time and see if I find anything.

[Gswitz]

Just start a new project.  Don't delete anything. 

This is almost surely something you have overlooked. 

Copy your tracks to the new project.  Try them one at a time.  You will find the issue. 

[dahjah]

Took a few weeks but I think I solved the issue. It made no sense, after removing a ram module the motherboard went crazy and I got locked into the bios and couldn't get out. Had the motherboard replaced and the prob was the same (locked in bios). The Bios had to be rebuilt.

I thought it must be the ram and was ready to drop at least 500 on 64gb but then I copied a project to different drive (C) and tried everything as I normally would and had no dropouts whatsoever. Did that a few more times and all was good. Instead of buying ram I bout another M2 drive and made that my main drive for CWB tasks.

So it looks like there's a prob with the ssd drive I was using before. All the files are good only when I went into mixdown would the problem happen. I wonder if I can format that (bad) drive and all be good with it again to use for something else or is about to die.

[dahjah]

False alarm... it's back again. I'm getting major dropouts even in playback now on my studio pc. When I put the same project on the laptop everything is fine, this one is very difficult to narrow in on.