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#1863100 - 09/06/23 12:22 AM Wierd glitches on a 1680 vocal comp
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I assembled a vocal comp track from 5 virtual tracks, like I have done many times before. When the mix was played back, the vocal track randomly glitches out at a certain point. If I start from a automix point right before the glitch, it plays back fine. This is not happening on other songs.
I tried copying t6he comp track to another virtual track but the problem is still there.
I copied the whole song onto an aux external drive with lot's of memory and the problem still occurs.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
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#1863103 - 09/06/23 12:59 AM Re: Wierd glitches on a 1680 vocal comp [Re: Heartwaves]
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The biggest culprit for glitching and dropouts I've experienced when comping tracks in the VS has been edits which contain regions which are 500ms or shorter. The VS can create a chunk that short, but it can't play it back - except as you describe, right before the glitch (which I'd guess is right at n edit point.

If you find this to be the case, there's 2 ways around the issue that I know will work:

1 - make a region that's longer than 500ms (1/2 second), preferably longer on the back end, containing the bit you need. Place it where it needs to be timewise. Then copy/move/paste the following section over the top of that region, butting up to where it should be, effectively covering up the excess of the otherwise too short region. (Hope you see what I mean. It works flawlessly).

2 - Instead, place the short bit(s) on a parallel track and tailor the region to seamlessly blend with the main comp'd track, using automation, if needed. You may have to make these regions longer than 500ms also and mute or fade out the excess with automation.

You could then bounce the track pair to a new comp'd whole track and hide the cludge tracks on unused layers.

I'd done a ton of this sort of editing on the 1680 (especially) for the many years I used it as my main recorder and before I discovered how much less painful it is to do these editing tasks in a pc daw.

Hope this helps to clear up your issue.
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#1863117 - 09/06/23 02:44 AM Re: Wierd glitches on a 1680 vocal comp [Re: uptildawn]
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Thanks for the help.
I redid 2 of the comp points, making the first 6 seconds long, and then the second 4 seconds long, placing the second comp so that it partially covered the end of the first edit point.
That solved the problem.
I immediately ran off a test mix of the song in case the 1680 felt like throwing a comp tantrum again.
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#1863149 - 09/06/23 03:03 PM Re: Wierd glitches on a 1680 vocal comp [Re: Heartwaves]
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 Originally Posted By: Heartwaves
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I immediately ran off a test mix of the song in case the 1680 felt like throwing a comp tantrum again.


You know you VS, that's for sure. \:\)
You never can tell.
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