Vegas10 Audio Anomalies

[John Rofrano]

What kind of anomalies? I haven’t heard anything. Could it be that you have a plug-in in your audio chain that is not licensed and is emitting these sounds to let you know it’s in “demo” mode?

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

There are 3 effects in each audio track effect chain and these are by default on, but their parameters are set to no effect. You can uncheck these if your not using them but I have never heard them make artifacts. Also if they sound fine in Sound Forge, then make sure your Vegas audio device and parameters match that of SF.If your machine is at the edge of it’s CPU usage in Vegas, your sound card drivers or track buffers might be causing them. Let us know when you find the fix. Danny Hays

[Dale Spetz]

Thanks John and Danny for your replies.

The weird anomalies are intermittently occurring on music events. They sound like very brief (less than a second, usually) overlays of some segment of the same music event. The anomalies do not appear in the wave pattern and, as I mentioned, they do not play/appear when the music event is opened in SF.

I think that the work-around has been to delete the event and simply re-apply it to the track. But, I may have had to close and re-start Vegas. I just don’t remember, but will make note next time.

I’ve used Vegas almost daily since version 7 and this behavior is new.

No new plug-ins, though I have recently added a USB-3 card and USB-3 source ext. source drives. They seem to act normally, but I am a little suspicious of them.

Also, I have had (always) the audio filter defaults removed.

If this is unique to me, then it most be something in my system.

[Dale Spetz]

Also, since I have you on the audio topic, this subject has long puzzled me (back to Vegas 7, I think):

I have noticed that my audio track db settings (on the far left side), sometimes mysteriously switch from 0.0 to -0.1. For a long time I thought that I was accidentally changing this setting, but it has happened too many times. And, it always switches to -0.1 (no other non-zero value).

It is not a big deal, but I am wondering if anyone has had this experience. Maybe my computer is possessed.

[John Rofrano]

[Dale Spetz] “It is not a big deal, but I am wondering if anyone has had this experience. Maybe my computer is possessed.”

I’ve never seen this phenomena. Could be a “ghost in the machine”. 😉

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

Have you tried starting over rebuilding the project and see if you have the same problems? Listen to each added audio track for these anomalies. If adding another video starts the problem, get the properties of that file, then maybe we can help. Danny Hays

[Dale Spetz]

It happened once again and I notice that, at least, one other on this board is having the same experience:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/926672

This time, a music event ended with a sound blip from the previous music event. Again, the audio anomaly was not visually present on the wave graph and did not exist with this same WAV file in SF.

Deleting and then re-inserting the music event did not resolve. The workaround was to close Vegas and then re-open Vegas and the project.

The problem, of course, is that this audio anomaly appears rarely and intermittently.