Logic wont play back audio regions under certain tracks.

Hello! I am rearranging my audio files (throwing them all to my secondary hard drive, where I record to ). I did this, and now certain audio files to do not play back in my logic projects, but there is no warning that says the file cannot be found--which is what I am used to happening. At that point I would either hit the Search button, or the Manually Find button. Instead, the region appears as per usual, just with nothing playing back. I know I could import the audio back into my projects manually--which would be fine for those that start at a specific, clean-cut time, but what about all those spliced and diced regions that are cut up and laid out all over the place!?

I discovered new details to the weirdness . . .

It seems, in the few projects that I relocated audio, that the affected regions cannot be played back unless I move them to another audio track. What??? For example, the vocal track in one song, which is all set up with its plugins and such as Audio Track 2, will produce no sound unless I drag it to another audio track, say Audio Track 3 or 4. It is bonkers!! What the heck is that about?

This is what happened in all of the projects affected by my source audio rearrangement. Sure, I could easily just copy my channel strip settings to a new track, relocate my audio region to it, and hope all goes well thereforth, but I would much rather get to the root of this oddity so it doesn't somehow buck me later.

What do you think it could be?

Oh yea, in one of the projects, all the other audio tracks seem to play back fine, except for the recorded bass track. Okay, so just to check, I drag the bass audio to another track--yep, it does play back. But I realized that the track that held the bass region (Track 4) is actually playing back the vocals (which are also playing back normally in their intended track). I initially didn't notice the extra vocals underneath my normal vocals track, with their low-key bass plug-in settings. Funny thing is, there isn't even a region on Track 4 any more! How is it playing anything back at all?? Not that it makes any more sense that it would be playing back vocals with a bass region.

Also, the fact that Logic Pro keeps quitting unexpectedly does not inspire much confidence. This has just been lately, and I've only been playing with these projects lately, trying to figure this out.

Is my Logic haunted? =(

I welcome any and all objective suggestions! I am feeling just the slightest bit overwhelmed by this odd behavior.

Thanks!


(i checked, but did not see that the tracks were muted in anyway, including the region itself)

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Posted on Dec 30, 2008 11:22 AM

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Dec 30, 2008 1:01 PM in response to Scroto Saggins

Hi Scroto,

I think you made a mistake by relocating your audio files; you could better copy the whole Users/'Scrotosaggins'/Music/Logic folder to (anywhere on) your secondary (recording) drive, delete the original folder, and always record to the project folder from then on.

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You can leave an alias to the Logic projects folder in the Music folder:

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As soon as you start moving audio files to different folders, all sorts of weirdness may and will happen. Can o'worms, Pandora's Box, you name it, it's open now.

Where did you record to until now? One 'recording' folder for everything, or a recording folder for each project? I'ld advise you to always record to the project folder and leave the audio there.

regards, Erik.

Dec 31, 2008 9:34 AM in response to Merged Content 1

So..

I wanted to make a transition from PT to Logic.. so I export, track by track...PTLE does not offer OMF free. Then I start a new Logic Project. Import PT exported Audio Files to Bin, place them on Arrange Window. I get the similar issues that it does not play or it plays the wrong audio file.

When you create a new track and import/place them on arrange window - I believe it creates a new region file under Audio Folder. So I your analogy of recording on wrong disk is does not hold true. I wanted so badly to make PTLE -> Logic transition.

I might stay the PTLE ... the new PT 8 seems really promising.

Dec 31, 2008 10:59 PM in response to Eriksimon

I figured something out that might tell someone what I did to screw things up!

I think I did something to mess up the environment or something. I know this much now: When I created a new project, I created 6 new audio tracks. I noticed that a piece of previously recorded audio that I imported into the project would only play back on ever other track! I than noticed that on the every other track (that would not play back the audio when it was dragged to it), there was neither a single circle (indicating mono for the track) or the two overlapping circles (indicating stereo for the track) beneath the channel's level meter.

There must be some significance to this that I do not quite understand!

I then went back and launched several of my problematic projects to see if the tracks that would not play back audio also did not display either the mono or stereo circles on their respective channel strips. They did not! What kind of global setting did I change that would cause this?


There was one project that had one track that bared neither mono or stereo an played back its audio (Although, in this same project, there was another track that bared neither symbol that was not playing back its audio). Anyway, I noticed something that was weird to me, but will likely tell someone what the heck I must have inadvertently done to cause all of this:
When I change one audio track (that bares the mono symbol) into stereo, the next audio track (that didn't display either symbol) seems like it is combined with the previous track's output!

Very strange! Did I somehow set some global preference to split up my audio tracks across each not audio track?? If so, could someone please explain to me what and I did that? Thanks!

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