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!

Get a different drummer?  Sorry - have no idea what is causing that.

Bob Bone

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 have not seen this so can only speculate on things - like either ensuring only tracks you want are selected for export, check the export settings, or try bouning that track (save as a new file when messing around). If this is only in the drum track, can also save as a new file and delete all tracks but the drums to try and isolate why and copy/paste into the new file. Again, keep the original file when testing things so you do not lose where you are now. I will often bounce tracks rather than using the export feature just out of habit.

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!

If it is playing fine unfrozen can't you just export it without the freeze? Maybe I'm missing something. Also I agree maybe bouncing the track to audio (in a new project of course so you don't lose the old one) might get around it.

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

    How about this... if the first export you did worked but the volume was just a little high on the one track why don't you take the original stereo export of the song, toss it into a new session and adjust the level there. Or is it a bad mix you are trying to fix?   

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.

Latest patch of superior drummer installed?