Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument

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2011/10/02 12:27:13 (permalink)

Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument

Working on a song for a couple of days when, last night while I was working w/ headphones, I suddenly noticed a tiny audible glitch, almost like a crackle. I managed to isolate the problem: one of the bounced 8 outputs of EZ Drummer, namely, the room channel.

Zooming all the way in on the waveform, I see that the left channel of the stereo track has a very slight irregularity at the beginning of a hit. No clipping, not a spike - it somehow looks like a little nod. We're talking just a few samples, at a fairly low amplitude, something easily fixed using the pencil tool in an audio editor.

All the other outputs are just fine. 

So I'm kind of curious, since it's the first time I ever notice anything like that. Any of you guys ever seen anything similar and/or have any idea what might have caused it?

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    Re:Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument 2011/10/02 14:48:46 (permalink)
    yeah.... once or twice. Try bouncing it to audio again. Could have been some sort of spike issue. If it occurs again in the same exact place, look deeper into the source track. 

    If it's just a "one peak" issue.... and on a track that is not critical, you can also zoom in as far as you can go and either use reduce volume or Mute audio processing on that one spike. 

    I used the mute on a single small spike that caused a click in one VST instrument when rendered to audio.... after the mute... I played it back solo, and it was inaudible since it went by so fast. 

    Try those fixes to see which one gives you the best results..... I've also discovered that what works in one instance may not work in another so be flexible and keep your options open to try various things to get it working.

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    Re:Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument 2011/10/02 15:23:35 (permalink)
    Thanks Guitarhacker. :) Glad to know that it isn't just me or my machine.
    I actually managed to get rid of it rather easily - these were just a couple of samples, and the pencil did a fantastic job removing any trace of it.

    I just hope it's not a sign of something going wrong on the hardware side. 

     





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    Re:Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument 2011/10/02 18:41:43 (permalink)
    Yeh, stuff like that happens sometimes. I wish I knew what causes it (no, it's not hardware-related). Usually, I just re-bounce and move on.


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    Re:Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument 2011/10/02 18:49:14 (permalink)
    Same here.  Recently on 2 separate occasions I found an unexplained and seemingly random click in an exported audio file.



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    Re:Little Issue in Bounced Virtual Instrument 2011/10/03 09:57:56 (permalink)
    The opposite happened to me.

    I was bouncing a track down when I heard on audible click from the speakers, probably due to something else in the house switching on (this wasn't an audible bounce)

    I noted whereabouts in the timeline this happened, and on playback where I expected a click to appear, there was nothing but pristine audio (well, as pristine as far as my mixing skills allow )

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