Weird Export Phase Issue - One channel of the stereo export is phase flipped.

[Terry Kelley]

I just ran into this today. I was listening to an export mix and it sounded as if one channel's phase is flipped. It sounds fine in playing Cakewalk but an export has one channel inverted. I split the stereo and reversed one channel and it's corrected.

I tried turning off all effects and it didn't change. I also removed the LP-64 Multi-band from the master bus and it's still reversed. I also turned off Multiprocessing and Plug-in load balancing and it didn't change (per an old Noel comment.)

Is there some place in Cakewalk where you can invert the phase of a single channel during export? I looked everywhere.

 

 

Edited March 9 by Terry Kelley

[David Baay]

 

1 hour ago, Terry Kelley said:

Is there some place in Cakewalk where you can invert the phase of a single channel during export?

Not that I'm aware of. 

Try bouncing the Master bus to a track and see if the one channel's phase is visibly reversed from the re-imported export that you fixed.

Edited March 9 by David Baay

[Terry Kelley]

Thanks David, we effectively did that and it was fine. It's a weird one.

[David Baay]

In that case you should get the same good result exporting only the Master bus. What source did you use originally in the export dialog?

[Terry Kelley]

As a follow up:

Turns out the issue is LP64  Multiband. I renamed it to DLLOLD and reinstalled it from Sonar 8 and it’s fine. Weird. I have two versions now that act differently. I also tested them in another DAW and it happens there too.

 

 

[David Baay]

Interesting. What are the dates/sizes of the good and bad ones?

Edited April 22 by David Baay

[Terry Kelley]

There are the same. I wonder if there is an INI file for it. 
 

Let me dig more and I’ll get back. And for those that are confused - I beat you to it.

[David Baay]

I can't repro a probem, and the LP-64 doesn't have a precision/quality setting that would affect the phase management and can't differentially process the stereo channels like the later LP MB, so I'm not sure how that would happen.

[Walter S]

I had the same problem: one stereo channel flipped when song is exported. 

I realized the problem was due to LP-64 Multiband effect. 

Very simple solution: try applying the effect twice!   

It works! 😜