I go to bounce my song. At bottom is says the song length is 3:22 which is correct. However, when I bounce it, Logic adds almost two minutes of extra silence to the end making the track almost five minutes long when I play it in iTunes. This is super annoying and it happens to all my projects.
There's two things to can do....
Your bounce is doing EXACTLY what you are telling it to do. The timing you are looking at is giving you the value of the duration of the regions in your song. As most songs have some sort of time based effect the bounce can and will be longer if you tell the bounce to include Audio Tail as this will invariably be the result of your time based effects.
Several users have already told you how to remedy this. Personally, I set a loop cycle when bouncing because I never start my recordings on the first beat of the first bar. So my transport display is always going to show longer that the actual length of the song as it will incorporate this area of silence or count in. Sometimes you might want to include Audio Tail, other times not. It makes perfect sense why it works the way it does. A lot of occasions, what a number or meter is reading may not be exactly what you think it is measuring. The manual can be your friend here as Pancenter points out.
Your title says 'Fix this annoying glitch'. Who are you talking to? This is a user to user forum. Apple don't come here and all of us just try to help each other out and I hope this helps you to understand exactly what is going on and why.
You aren't the only one, it's a known issue when you have "Include Audio Tail" enabled. Uncheck that and your bounce will be 3:22. There's nothing else to say.
From the manual:
Include Audio Tail: The bounce file is extended as far as necessary to include any instrument release and effect tail.
Good point, it would be less confusing, if it says "Requires at least infinity PB, since you have a freeze reverb on AUX1". Joke aside, how about reporting that nuisance at https://www.apple.com/feedback/logic-pro.html.
Best,
DaCaptain
At the bottom of my screenshot you will see it says "(Time 3:22)". My bounce should be 3:22 long EXACTLY. Theres nothing else to say. How am I the only one having this glitch?
No my audio tail isn't 2 min long. This is so stupid.
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No it's not doing what I tell it. I watch the db drop to zero and stay at zero at 3:22. I did set up a loop cycle. This happens to ALL my projects.
The db on the output meter does not reflect an inaudible reverb or delay tail that may be registering at minute amounts inside the computer and telling it thre's still some sort of processing going on. Your audio tail doesn't have to be 2 minutes long but if logic thinks one of your plug-ins is still processing then it will see that as activity and run for that amount of time. You won't (and are not) necessarily see any activity on the output meter.
There is no audio inside a computer just 1s and 0s, there is only processing or not processing, and you may not be able to hear or see a process that is still occuring. Logic will interpret that as activity and hence interpret that as a tail.
We are just trying to help you get to the bottom of this and solve it.
So, did you uncheck "Include Audio Tail" and try the bounce.
153 bars at 3:22 equals a bpm of approx 181 in 4/4
Fix this annoying glitch
