Export-Error - unwanted Silence @ Start, unwanted cut-off at End of File

jonobo
Posts: 14
 Joined: 2007-05-23

Hi @ all,

i am running Ardour 2.5 .

If i export a Range or Session i get a really bad Problem/Error.

For example, right now i want to export a 16 bars beatloop consisting of loads of samples - i simply want to export that into one new file, and then import that file again so i have a clean and easy to handle 16bar-Loop.

The strange thing:
If i open the exported file it has
- a short silence in the beginning
- the end of the loop gets lost/cutted off

How and why does this happen?
It makes it nerve-grinding to produce beats in this way - so what is the proper way to get my loops out of ardour without anything missing?
I simply need 100% precision ;)

I read about the “consolidate range”-Option in another Thread, but either it doesn’t work on my compile or i don’t get it.

But let’s stay on the main topic:
How to export clean?
Without silence sneaking in at the beginning, and without creepy cut-offs at the end?

Can it have something to do with latency and JACK?
My Jack-Latency is set to 1024. But that shouldn’t do anything on exports?
Arghl…

Please help me out of editing-hell ;)

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Submitted by jonobo on Thu, 2008-08-28 11:21. login or register to post comments
Seb
Posts: 66
 Joined: 2006-04-07
I remember a bug a while ago

I remember a bug a while ago where i got export ranges to work once i set it to “snap to CD frames”. Let us know if that helps/doesn’t help!


Fri, 2008-08-29 04:33 login or register to post comments
jonobo
Posts: 14
 Joined: 2007-05-23
Thanks for the Tip, but

Thanks for the Tip, but bruce-unfortunate-lee it didn’t work.

I set the snapping to “Grid” and “CD Frames” and exported the whole session again (Session - Export - Export Session to Audiofile) with the following settings:
Channels: stereo
File Type: WAV
Sample Format: 16 Bit
Sample Rate: 48kHz (Session and JACK is 48kHz too)
Dither Type: None
CD Marker File Type: None

So, nothing special as far as i can see, not much i could possibly do wrong.

Before setting the snapping back to CD Frames i set the Session-Markers to the beginning and end of my Loop with Snapping-Grid-Bars on, so the markers are in the right position, i verified that as i do almost always by zooming in at the beginning and end of the loop.

The strange thing is, the loop is exported with the right overall length, but in the beginning i have a short silence, and so the end gets cut-off and everything isn’t on time anymore.

I mean - does it work with everybody else here?
Positive Feedback needed - if clean export works with you - post it here - so i know that it can work, even if it doesn’t for me here.

Peace,

;j


Sun, 2008-08-31 11:17 login or register to post comments