unwanted silence added when importing audio clip
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:51 am
When I take a loop recorded in Live, edit it in Audacity, and import it back into Live, there is unwanted silence at the end, meaning that the events in the loop are no longer in time.
This is what happens:
I record my loop in Live. Today it was a bit of guitar strumming. All the strums were more or less in time. There was one bum chord, and because I am a terrible guitarist, I opened the clip in Audacity to replace the chord with another one from somewhere else in the loop. I kept the original version in one track and the new version in another track, so I was able to verify that my edit hadn't changed the timing. Then I exported the edited clip as WAV 32 bit float. But when I imported it back into Live, I found that the last event came half a beat too early. In other words this 16 beat loop had been augmented to a 16½ beat loop.
I went back to Audacity, closed my projects, opened both the old and the new version of the loop in separate projects, then copied the audio from one to a new track in the other, and then played that project. The sounds were perfectly lined up. This means that Live is adding silence at the end of the edited clip when it imports it. How can I stop this happening?
This is what happens:
I record my loop in Live. Today it was a bit of guitar strumming. All the strums were more or less in time. There was one bum chord, and because I am a terrible guitarist, I opened the clip in Audacity to replace the chord with another one from somewhere else in the loop. I kept the original version in one track and the new version in another track, so I was able to verify that my edit hadn't changed the timing. Then I exported the edited clip as WAV 32 bit float. But when I imported it back into Live, I found that the last event came half a beat too early. In other words this 16 beat loop had been augmented to a 16½ beat loop.
I went back to Audacity, closed my projects, opened both the old and the new version of the loop in separate projects, then copied the audio from one to a new track in the other, and then played that project. The sounds were perfectly lined up. This means that Live is adding silence at the end of the edited clip when it imports it. How can I stop this happening?