Automation turns off when pausing audio

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TomerBass25
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Automation turns off when pausing audio

Post by TomerBass25 » Thu Sep 15, 2022 2:45 pm

Hey guys,
I am struggling with a really annoying problem lately, hope you could help.
*Quick Note- I assume thee following problem is by ableton, but it might be because of the third party I use (Native instruments keyboard and KK).

Alright-
1. I record a (beautiful) track using my midi keyboard
2. during the record I play with the midi knobs to record automations.
3. as soon as I stop recording, one automation becomes disabled, rest of the automations are just fine.
4. I re-enable it, and play the track, it runs flawlessly.
5. as soon as I pause again, the *same* automation goes disabled (repeat 4 and 5 for eternity.)

It happened to me in several midi files, in several projects.
I have updated the plugin (which is various synths from Komplete Kontrol).

REALLY annoying, any suggestions?
Thanks in adavance. I am willing to give more details if I only knew what the exact details you need =]

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Re: Automation turns off when pausing audio

Post by chapelier fou » Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:36 pm

Maybe you don't have overdub enabled and you continued tweaking after the recorded clip started the first loop ?
EDIT : actually the Session Rec button (previously OVR) automatically turns off when you turn a recording clip into a playing clip. It's super annoying indeed.....
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Re: Automation turns off when pausing audio

Post by Rivanni » Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:54 pm

TomerBass25 wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 2:45 pm
3. as soon as I stop recording, one automation becomes disabled,
4. I re-enable it, and play the track, it runs flawlessly.
5. as soon as I pause again, the *same* automation goes disabled (repeat 4 and 5 for eternity.)
What is that same automation exactly? What parameter?

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Re: Automation turns off when pausing audio

Post by [jur] » Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:32 pm

That sometimes happen with (faulty) 3rd party plugins.
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TomerBass25
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Re: Automation turns off when pausing audio

Post by TomerBass25 » Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:04 pm

Rivanni wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:54 pm
TomerBass25 wrote:
Thu Sep 15, 2022 2:45 pm
3. as soon as I stop recording, one automation becomes disabled,
4. I re-enable it, and play the track, it runs flawlessly.
5. as soon as I pause again, the *same* automation goes disabled (repeat 4 and 5 for eternity.)
What is that same automation exactly? What parameter?
Well, it's been a while and I tried to find a pattern to understand which parameter's automation turns off:
1. I understood it happens only in Komplete Kontrol (So far), so it might be just faulty plug in as mentioned above, other plugins did not have the problem (yet).
2. Komplete Kontrol lets you host other synths and instruments, it happens in many of them, in different parameters -so that's not simple as just saying 'level' or 'cutoff'.)
3. BUT, I also noticed (90% sure) that the faulty parameter is the parameter that is linked to the leftmost knob on my MIDI keyboard. (native instruments MK32).

I will try to un-link the knob and the parameter and see if there is any change, and update here as soon as I can..

Thanks for the answers! more are welcome.

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