First of all, it's a good idea to have an empty bar at the beginning, many have two or three of them. When you export to wav you can start the export anywhere you want.
If there is an empty bar, why don't you just drag the clips to the beginning? Or do you mean there's an empty clip?
Did you try selecting the track and the portion in the timeline and use "Cut - Delete hole?"
Did you check that the MIDI clip following the empty bar really begins at 2.0.0. or later, not one tick earlier?