troubleshooting Specific clip is not playing audio, notes are white instead of red.

[Gold Rush Interactive]

Included picture below. When I click on a note, it plays. But when I click on the play button, there is no audio. Now the simpliest solution is to rerecord this riff. But I want to understand why it is not playing. My drum track is working find with no issue.

 

When I recorded this, it was in a loop and was I played it 5 times. I think that is related to why it is not working, but I can't figure out how to fix it. I have searched forums (And asked Copilot, lol) but so far nothing has helped.

 

 

[57Gregy]

8 minutes ago, Gold Rush Interactive said:

Included picture below. When I click on a note, it plays. But when I click on the play button, there is no audio. Now the simpliest solution is to rerecord this riff. But I want to understand why it is not playing. My drum track is working find with no issue.

 

When I recorded this, it was in a loop and was I played it 5 times. I think that is related to why it is not working, but I can't figure out how to fix it. I have searched forums (And asked Copilot, lol) but so far nothing has helped.

 

 

Welcome to the forum.
What is the Master bus's output? An Insignia TV?

[Gold Rush Interactive]

4 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

Welcome to the forum.
What is the Master bus's output? An Insignia TV?

Thank you for the quick reply. Yeah it is an Insignia TV. I know the master track is working because the drum track works, but for some reason the bass guitar doesn't play the recording on playback, it only plays if I open the keyboard and start manually playing it. I also have headphones, I just took them off for a bit.

[57Gregy]

25 minutes ago, Gold Rush Interactive said:

Thank you for the quick reply. Yeah it is an Insignia TV. I know the master track is working because the drum track works, but for some reason the bass guitar doesn't play the recording on playback, it only plays if I open the keyboard and start manually playing it. I also have headphones, I just took them off for a bit.

Can we see your drum track's properties like the bass track's?

Also, it may not be relevant to your situation, but I think it's a good idea to set your Inputs to None unless you're actively recording. I see 2 are set to All External Inputs.

[Gold Rush Interactive]

I know this doesn't exactly answer your question, but I rerecorded the clip, and the new clip works (red notes) and the old recording (white notes) does not work on the same synth track.
 

I will keep that in mind. This is my second track with this software so I am still a noob.

[Max Arwood]

It looks like a midi track. A midi track has no sound. It has to make sounds through a soft synth or a keyboard (midi module)

 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

You've got SI Bass Guitar in the FX bin

You need to insert it as a soft synth

Delete Track 1 and start again

[Amberwolf]

Is the clip muted?  

If you select a clip and press Q on the keyboard, it will mute (Quiet  ) the clip.  Pressing Q again while selected unmutes it.  While muted a clip appears "dim" which may change the color you see on the screen.

 

Handy use of the feature: If you have two clips you are A/Bing you can mute one, then select both and loop on the time range they are in, then press Q each time you want to hear the other one and it just toggles back and forth. 

[David Baay]

4 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

If you select a clip and press Q on the keyboard, it will mute (Quiet  ) the clip.  Pressing Q again while selected unmutes it. 

Yes, looks like the clip is muted, but the default shortcut is K, not Q.

 

16 hours ago, Gold Rush Interactive said:

When I recorded this, it was in a loop and was I played it 5 times.

If you loop-record in Comping mode, any part of a take that's overlapped by a later take will be muted. Right-click the Record button in the transport to see recordng preferences, and see the Ref. Guide for how it all works.

[Amberwolf]

15 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Yes, looks like the clip is muted, but the default shortcut is K, not Q.

Guess they changed it since my version came out a decade and a half ago. :flush:

 

Not sure why, though; to me K doesn't make any sense for a mute but Q does.  (then again, my brain doesn't work like normal people's so things that make sense to me don't to anyone else anyway). 

 

Edited September 22 by Amberwolf

[David Baay]

No biggie; I almost didn't notice it but am pretty sure K has been the default since advent of clip muting while Q was already reserved for Quantize. I've joked previously that K stands for "Kwiet".  ;^)

[Max Arwood]

And “M” is not mute it’s markers. Lol

Edited September 22 by Max Arwood
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[Amberwolf]

Hmmm....I dunno.  Out of curiosity, I just verfied that in mine (v8 that I'm actually using and v6 the earliest I still have installed) the default keybinding is Q for clip mute toggle (there isn't any key bound to it so it's whatever is built in); I don't recall ever changing that in earlier versions, but that was a long time ago so I don't know for sure if it started that way or not. 

Don't know when it changed, but apparently it has at some point at least once.

 

 

EDIT:  @max arwood:  In mine, M is track manager by default.  Markers view in mine doesn't have a key assigned to it; I have to Alt-V then S to bring it up. (or use the mouse). 

Edited September 22 by Amberwolf

[Gold Rush Interactive]

So yeah I just deleted it and started over. I improved the riff in my rerecording and it sounds better than the original anyway. lol.

[David Baay]

20 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

I just verfied that in mine (v8 that I'm actually using and v6 the earliest I still have installed) the default keybinding is Q for clip mute toggle (there isn't any key bound to it so it's whatever is built in)

I jumped in the way back machine and verified Q was clip mute toggle in Sonar 8 and K activated the Mute Tool.

I won't ask why you're still using Sonar 8 (!).

[Amberwolf]

6 minutes ago, David Baay said:

I won't ask why you're still using Sonar 8 (!).

Well, until CbB came out as a free thing, I couldn't get newer versions.  I can't afford or justify spending more on that since even though creating music is one of the most important things in the universe to me, nothing I could possibly ever create would be good enough to earn even a tiny fraction of the money to pay for it (much less earn me even the most barebones living).   So I use what I have that does enough things for me to do what I want. 

 

Sonar Platinum had a free (or super-cheap, don't recall which) offer at some point, and I tried that but it broke my VST adapter setup, etc, breaking synths and effects and whatnot so my projects wouldn't work, and  years of my created presets either broken or missing, so between these issues it took a very long time of tedious file and registry entry research and experimentation for me to scrub it all out and put it back to a state I could even do anything with music; it's still not fully fixed, and probably never will be but I can use it for what I have to, mostly (I can no longer scan for new plugins, because it will always break all the old ones in the process).  (and naturally the OS system restore stuff didn't actually put it back the way it had been, and broke even more stuff, so that was very unhelpful.) 

 

After CbB came out I tried it, but it also screwed things like Platinum did in my existing setup, and I had to painstakingly scrub it and hack things back again like before.   After that I wasn't going to try anything new on this system that could break my ability to use it, since I had by this point wasted months of manhours being unable to work on or play with music, and I'm just not going to do that anymore.  (I used to fix computers for a living, and am really good at it, but it's tedious and exhausting and I hate doing it; they're tools to be used and if I can't use mine rather than tinkering with it all the time, there's no point to having it). 

 

Relatively recently I got a backup machine to set things up on and try out new things, but that's still a work in progress, and I have little free time to mess with it so it'll be a while before I can explore CbB and it's new features. 

 

I wish I was someone that could afford to just spend time, energy, and money on new things just because they're new things (or pay someone else to do it for me) but I don't have enough of any of them to go around as it is.