"Skips" the first beat after export

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Nauree
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"Skips" the first beat after export

Post by Nauree » Wed May 25, 2016 2:46 pm

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows what happened here, after I exported my track the first beat sounded super squashed to the point where the transient was just gone I guess, or as if it had fades enabled, neither of which are the case.
It sounds fine in the project, nothing on my master, fades aren't enabled so I cannot for the life of me figure out why the first kick sounds like that.

https://clyp.it/abbja03g

Any ideas?

jestermgee
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Re: "Skips" the first beat after export

Post by jestermgee » Thu May 26, 2016 3:06 am

Highlight your entire arrangement and move it 1 bar to the right so you have 1 bar of silence at the start. You can move it just 1 beat but personally I like to keep the downbeats on a bar mark.

Sounds like the rendering is starting a little too fast for something to initialize. Happens from time to time with some instruments/effects devices so you need to allow a small amount of time for things to "get ready" before rendering starts.

When you render out be sure your start is 0.0.0. as Live tries to detect where the actual content physically starts and stops. An easy way to make sure you always have a proper start and end mark beyond the actual length of your track so you have some padding at the start and end is to place a blank clip at the start and up to where you want rendering to stop... Saves having to worry about setting the loop markers or manually set the render region each time.

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