Unwanted automatic mixing during bounce

Question

Unwanted automatic mixing during bounce

For some reason, every time I bounce a project, it automatically changes the volume of each track, ones that I have intentionally altered in order to achieve the desired sound. This is extremely irritating, and I have no idea what the problem is. I tried turning normalization off, but the problem persists. Thanks

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jun 27, 2010 12:57 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Eriksimon

Level 6

15,416 points

Jun 27, 2010 1:55 PM in response to harmlessgoat22

harmlessgoat22 wrote:
This is extremely irritating

O dear.

Maybe reading this will take the edge off?

Reply

Answer 2

Jun 27, 2010 2:06 PM in response to Eriksimon

Haha thank you very much!

Reply

Answer 3

Jun 27, 2010 5:20 PM in response to harmlessgoat22

Ummm.... can you be more specific?

Are you saying the individual tracks (bass, kick, snare, vocal, etc...) change volume when you bounce, and only when you bounce?

So if your bass track is set at -5.2 dB, the fader value moves to something else during the bounce?

Reply

Answer 4

Jun 27, 2010 5:28 PM in response to Jim Frazier

Yes, that is it.

Reply

Answer 5

Jun 27, 2010 7:07 PM in response to harmlessgoat22

Ok, so if you haven't written any automation, then there are most likely MIDI volume control messages that have been written onto the track.

Select the regions on a track, and open the Event List. In that list, do you see anything that says control 7, which is the MIDI CC for volume? If so, select one of those events, and under the Event window's EDIT menu, choose "Select similar". This will select all the MIDI volume messages. Hit delete.

If you do find this, you'll need to then do this for every track in your song.

See if that's what's going on....

Reply