Distortion and or Trailing Effects on the First Note Upon Export

Any midi tracks there Brian ?
Look for a phantom note at 101:00 Its happened to me before.
 
Cant say ive heard of this before, especially with Save/close/reopen and it solves the problem.
you might be able to work around it by killing the audio engine (in the control bar) before you start the export.
But that's only a band aid till we can figure out the real culprit. which im guessing a plug in or something triggering midi data (Example: Drums).

chuckebaby
Any midi tracks there Brian ?
Look for a phantom note at 101:00 Its happened to me before.
 
Cant say ive heard of this before, especially with Save/close/reopen and it solves the problem.
you might be able to work around it by killing the audio engine (in the control bar) before you start the export.
But that's only a band aid till we can figure out the real culprit. which im guessing a plug in or something triggering midi data (Example: Drums).

 
There is usually at least one MIDI track on my projects (a drum program such as AD, EZ Drummer, Drum Core are used frequently), I'll check on the phantom note, but many times it seems like a legitimate note (but distortion or an effect is applied to it that shouldn't be there)  

jonboper
 Is it as if the song was playing on repeat and the end is looping back into the beginning?

Yes, or as if the trailing effect at the end of the song is being applied to the 1st note (but also some distortion is also usually added in addition to say "reverb"

Hi. I have seen this on a few occasions some time back. I have usually either stop/started the Audio Engine, or hit play, followed by stop. And all has been well.
It has happened so seldom, that I never tried troubleshooting it.
All the best.
 

IIRC, I have had this happen to me when stopping a project before the end, and then exported.
But as Bristol_Jonesey says, it sounds like an effect hasn't stopped sounding on my end.

chuckebaby
Could be an automation node ?
I know personally I do a lot of nonsense automation, like silencing the beginning of my tracks with automation.
 
you don't notice it though in real time when listening to it ?
Hope the bump helps man

Nope, even happens with projects that are jazz related with no automation (dynamics within the players)
 
Also is not heard in real time playback, thus the frustration when it happens on export
 

Zargg
Hi. I have seen this on a few occasions some time back. I have usually either stop/started the Audio Engine, or hit play, followed by stop. And all has been well.
It has happened so seldom, that I never tried troubleshooting it.
All the best.
 

This was a good thought, but the start/stop audio engine doesn't fix it either and I tried multiple combinations
 

Bristol_Jonesey
Sounds like an Fx tail that hasn't finished sounding but gets rendered when you Export.
 
It’s a good idea to add an extra measure to the end of your project to contain any reverb tails that your effects produce.

Also a good thought, but doesn't seem to solve my issue.  Still happens with extra "blank" time at the end of the track.  Still get a stutter/distorted note/heavy effect processed note at the very beginning of the exported file.
 
 

chuckebaby
Any midi tracks there Brian ?
Look for a phantom note at 101:00 Its happened to me before.
 
 

No phantom note at 101:00 - confirmed on multiple projects. 
 
Just confused...
 

jonboper
For me this has happened in plugin-heavy projects with dozens of audio and synth tracks...not a common phenomenon. Full toll.

I rarely use more than 8-10 tracks, and only a couple of which would be synths.  Though I do have VSTs/ProChannel on just about every track for in the box mixing.
 
It happens on the majority of projects I export assuming I've been doing some play back of the project before exporting.  
 

I regularly get this and it is very annoying - I often have to use Adobe SoundBooth to trim the first section of the track to remove the offending artefact

I do notice it more if I am using GUITAR RIG - what plugins and effects are you using?

Kalle Rantaaho
Bristol Jonesey spots the issue, but isn't the original solution to this anymore in the settings? Those descriptions bring to mind "Play effects tails after stop"" . If it's not checked, pressing stop leaves the reverb tails in the buffer, and they're the first thing you hear when you press "play" again.

I spent some time last night going through the menus looking for that very setting, but failed miserably.

chuckebaby

Boydie
I do notice it more if I am using GUITAR RIG - what plugins and effects are you using?

This is a good point.
If it is indeed a plug in issue, you might be able to narrow down your issue by removing some plug ins then doing an export test until you can figure out which plug in it is.

 
I get the problem even when only using products that were supplied with SPLAT.  (though my recent projects did include Waves J37, and sometimes SSL E)

Bristol_Jonesey
Another way would be to briefly hit the spacebar, then hit it again, immediately before Exporting.
 
This would clear out any buffers, and if you still have the problem after doing this, then you have a different problem.
 

Also doesn't solve the problem on my machine.  

I have had this happen too, but only in playback, never had it show as an export..
And I'll be with Jonesey on this, it's audio stored in a buffer that does not get released. For me it is usually a crash cymbal tail which is often the last note of a drum track.
And I will hear it almost everytime I do an export when the export has just finished and releases the audio engine. But it's never appeared in the exported file.  
I always leave 2 measures, 1= blank, 2 = count in which I chop off during mastering. 
So if it persists, add a blank measure to the start. 
 
Oh and ya,, what ever happened to the " play effects tails" option? I guess they figured only a fool would turn it off so nuked it to unclutter the menu. So we will assume it is always on now. 

Cactus Music
 
I always leave 2 measures, 1= blank, 2 = count in which I chop off during mastering. 
So if it persists, add a blank measure to the start. 
 
 

YUP! you can select all tracks and slid them together a couple bars forward. :)