Recording Gods Hate Me

Please help. I've just finished reviewing my EP in the car/home stereo, etc. I'm satisfied with 4 of the 5 songs. One song's volume is a bit too high so I reduce this just a bit. That's all I do to it. Now I export the wave file as usual, put the 5 songs on a CD and listen. All's going well until I get to the end of the song I adjusted the volume on. Now, all of a sudden, my Superior Drummer drops out at a key location (solo drums). I go back to the tracks and the song has no problems. It's only on CD. I redo the song 2 more times, all with the same result. I then freeze the drum track and discover the track now reveals where the drop outs are. When I unfreeze the tracks, the drums play fine. When I export the tracks, the drum track has the same drop outs where the "frozen" track had them. It's like I'm recording a frozen track but I'm not. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

I have no idea how SD works, but in BFD2, there is a setting which you must switch in prior to exporting/bouncing - it's referred to as the 'offline' button.

Could SD have something similar to this?

I know if I forget to engage this, BFD2 will definitely drop out.

Also check your Midi prepare buffers - you might be getting Midi bottlenecks - whatever they are currently set to, double it and try again

I appreciate the ideas, folks. As I thought about all this (after I calmed down :-)) I believe this problem has to do with an artifact. Somewhere along the line I must have frozen this particular track and now this artifact has come back to haunt me. It's really frustrating--the song plays perfectly in Sonar but when recording to a CD the frozen track keeps coming back. Weird! Does anyone know how to get rid of an artifact? Thanks!

Hi Beepster, That's the problem--I am exporting the track without the freeze yet it still seems to be there. Yikes@!

In fact even though X1/2 are supposed to allow you to master in the original project IMO it's always best to toss the mixdowns into a mastering session anyway. Helps with stuff like this and gives you a chance to make it all extra slick VIA the fancier EQs and compressors and crap. I never use my first mixdown. 

Maybe I'm just old... or OCD... or both... but I like doing it that way. Cheers.

Did you have automation on the drum tracks?

Or just old.

WHAT?

;-p

THORAZINE PARTY!! WOOT!!

I had this problem in a simple 3 track test I was doing one time.

1 bass, 1 guitar, 1 instance of SD3.

The track played fine, but when I froze it, or exported the project, some of the hi-hat parts were missing. Just gone, even though they were present during playback.

The only way I could resolve it was by doing a real time export. I started this project in 8.5, and to this day, right on up to X2, if I open it and try to export it, the same midi notes are silent, yet I hear them during playback.

Unfortunately, sometimes things just get corrupted.

Good luck.

Have you sacrificed a virgin to the recording gods lately....
 
 

Hi Everyone, Thanks very much for all the suggestions. I checked them out but didn't have much success. After 30+ years in the Army I've learned a few sayings. One of the most useful is, "Sierra Hotel" which means "s*** happens". When something happens which makes no sense you say S.H. and continue on the best you can. I think this is a case of "Sierra Hotel". I went back to the drawing board and copy/pasted an older version of the drum track. All's OK now. I think this event is just the result of a software bug that doesn't happen very often (thankfully!). Cheers! Mike