What is going on with this Wav?

That's pretty weird. Do you have DC offset correction engaged? If not, you might try turning it on and bouncing down again.

DC offset was not checked, but I have checked it and re-bounced and am seeing the same result.
 
The resulting WAV does not sound like the source track (I'm bouncing 'raw track') but doesn't sound 'corrupted', it just sounds off, deader.
 
I tried a 'What You Hear' bounce with the track going straight to the sound card (no bus) and... same result.
I tried an export to desktop and imported it back in and... same result.
 
I will say this: I didn't experience this problem when bouncing a pad with FM8 the other day in another project.

DC offset correction will probably only work on audio that is actually recorded through an Analog to Digital converter.
 
Synthesized DC offset rendered in a bounce, if that is what it is, is probably not routed through the same flow where SONAR's DC offset correction occurs.
 
If it sounds close to what you think it is sounding like when you play it back on the fly then it's probably just the characteristic of the patch you have chosen or set up. I wouldn't bother comparing to another patch to determine of something is wrong. It is a synthesizer and synthesizers can produce some very unique signals.
 
Good luck.
 
best regards,
mike
 
 

Are you saying that there is a live waveform drawing on playback that visually appears different, or are you saying that there is a slight difference in sound, or both?
 
I think you can actually expect that a complex patch with oscillators, synthesis, and or delay lines will play back slightly different every time you run through the sequence. It is especially apparent when you compare the results of live performance with a complex patch (playing a keyboard or twisting parameter knobs etc.) and playing back as a sequence with automation. It is one reason people have asked for the simplicity of internal routing of outputs to other track so that performances can be recorded just as they are performed.
 
Having said that, I am just being optimistic that there's is nothing problematic happening... you could possibly have discovered some issue that can be improved.
 
Good luck.
 
best regards,
mike
 
 
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Interesting. Seems like it might be worth asking Cakewalk support to look at it.
 
best,
mike

It's the factory patch, "classic content/textures/constantly moving (hold"
 

bitflipper
Maybe you have a REALLY slow LFO modulating?

There undoubtedly are slow-moving LFOs... I don't see why they would act differently on bounce, or create that kind of offset though. 
 

Sounds are not always symmetrical in terms of their waveforms. Brass and wind recordings (for example) often look like this. It's not necessarily wrong, in any meaningful sense. How does it sound?