Not what I saved!!
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:43 pm
Relative newby to ABLETON here!
Limited skill set; fabulous imagination!
I'm presently writing a 22 songs album of Dark Wave songs. Everything was great, until 2 days ago...
I've got OCD, so my methodologies of how I work remain IDENTICAL. I've been going through each song systematically, I only move on to the next when I've "finalised" it in my head. I'm presently up to song 19, so the early songs have remained utterly unworked on for weeks, if not months.
Same routine: load project, listen through entirely a few times, start work, finish work, play though album, save, repeat...
I've been doing this for months and suddenly, with no apparent change on my part, something odd is happening: I load a pristine version of what I've been working on the day before, play it through and everything is fine... thing is I'm ONLY working on songs 18 and 19, but when I now save it, then reload it all the effects in the songs I HAVEN'T WORKED ON are all over the place!
They sound abysmal and are absolutely nothing like what they were the night before on my final play-through.
It seems to change AFTER I've saved it, which seems, logically impossible!
I assure you, I'm not touching the aforementioned clips at all and they are altering "post save", if that makes sense. I'm working absolutely exclusively on the last tracks, but when I reload my project, songs unworked on have changed sonically, massively.
I've bitten the bullet a couple of times and scrapped the latest version i've worked on and gone back to a pristine older version.
I start again, unequivocal that the early songs are "perfect" to my ear, do some work, play the album CERTAIN the early tracks are fine, then save it and same thing happens: all early songs are again wrong, identically wrong as what happened before.
When I compare versions, all the effects "lines" I have drawn are IDENTICAL, all the parameters are IDENTICAL, just sonically they sound nothing alike although everything seems identical. When I watch the bottom effects rack I see the light come on when the effect comes into play but I don't hear it working.
I know the early songs are great when I start, but awful after I've saved/reloaded.
Can anybody help me with this? All searches I've tried are fruitless!
I'm stuck as I get the idea that if I redo the early songs - which took an absolute age - they'll just reset to awful once I've saved/reloaded them. Absolutely bizarre!
Thank you for your time.
Limited skill set; fabulous imagination!
I'm presently writing a 22 songs album of Dark Wave songs. Everything was great, until 2 days ago...
I've got OCD, so my methodologies of how I work remain IDENTICAL. I've been going through each song systematically, I only move on to the next when I've "finalised" it in my head. I'm presently up to song 19, so the early songs have remained utterly unworked on for weeks, if not months.
Same routine: load project, listen through entirely a few times, start work, finish work, play though album, save, repeat...
I've been doing this for months and suddenly, with no apparent change on my part, something odd is happening: I load a pristine version of what I've been working on the day before, play it through and everything is fine... thing is I'm ONLY working on songs 18 and 19, but when I now save it, then reload it all the effects in the songs I HAVEN'T WORKED ON are all over the place!
They sound abysmal and are absolutely nothing like what they were the night before on my final play-through.
It seems to change AFTER I've saved it, which seems, logically impossible!
I assure you, I'm not touching the aforementioned clips at all and they are altering "post save", if that makes sense. I'm working absolutely exclusively on the last tracks, but when I reload my project, songs unworked on have changed sonically, massively.
I've bitten the bullet a couple of times and scrapped the latest version i've worked on and gone back to a pristine older version.
I start again, unequivocal that the early songs are "perfect" to my ear, do some work, play the album CERTAIN the early tracks are fine, then save it and same thing happens: all early songs are again wrong, identically wrong as what happened before.
When I compare versions, all the effects "lines" I have drawn are IDENTICAL, all the parameters are IDENTICAL, just sonically they sound nothing alike although everything seems identical. When I watch the bottom effects rack I see the light come on when the effect comes into play but I don't hear it working.
I know the early songs are great when I start, but awful after I've saved/reloaded.
Can anybody help me with this? All searches I've tried are fruitless!
I'm stuck as I get the idea that if I redo the early songs - which took an absolute age - they'll just reset to awful once I've saved/reloaded them. Absolutely bizarre!
Thank you for your time.