Bug?

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:48 pm

Just an example:
1. Open Crazy About My Baby
2. Create some volume envelope points in Track 2 (Crashes)
3. Right-click sound and select Edit In External Editor...
4. Click Edit
5. Don't change anything in external editor, but go back to Mixcraft and
6. Click Done
You'll see the volume envelope points have moved (a bit to the right) - and maybe points at the end of the sound have been deleted...
Bug?

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:19 pm

Hi,

What external editor are you using? What version and build of Mixcraft are you using?

If you don't have version 4.5 build 116, download the latest version of Mixcraft here.

Greg

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:53 am

Using newest version. Happened in 4.2 as well.
Adobe Audition 3.0.1. But the bug will occur even if I click Edit and Done BEFORE Audition has opened...
You can't reproduce it?[/quote]

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:29 pm

OK. Go to this site: http://www.2shared.com/file/5238333/66e ... strar.html

Go to the bottom of page

Click: "Save file to your PC: click here"

Unrar. Open project.

Edit sound in External Editor...

Click Done

Behold the volume envelope point change.

Can't reproduce it? Anyone?

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:30 pm

Hi,

No, I can't reproduce it. Does it only happen with that sound and that project? What if you try it with a wave file?

Greg

Vibrant Audio · Post by **Vibrant Audio** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:54 pm

I am able to reproduce the bug when opening your project. Mixcraft v4.5 build 107. Using both Wavosaur and Soundforge 9. But I don't think it has anything to do with the external editor.

With your testrar project the beginning and ending volume points stay the same, the added volume point disappears. Doesn't matter if I click Done or Cancel. Same result. Have moved, shortened, and edited exact volumes of points.

Have slightly lengthened the clip and added another volume point between the last two. Both added points disappear.

However, if I lengthen the clip to near the full length of the whole loop and then attempt to edit the problem does not occur. Shortening the clip again makes the bug recur.

I remember coming across this problem once with version 3, but it "went away" and didn't happen again. I have not been able to duplicate this with a new project even when I load your track and duplicate your project exactly.

Vibrant Audio · Post by **Vibrant Audio** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:59 pm

I also opened "Crazy About My Baby" and duplicated the bug that you described. I was able to do the same thing on every audio track in that project. The added volume points all move to the right - different amounts with each edit.

BTW, I updated to 4.5 build 116 with the same results.

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:44 am

Thanks for testing this.

Vibrant Audio wrote:I also opened "Crazy About My Baby" and duplicated the bug that you described. I was able to do the same thing on every audio track in that project. The added volume points all move to the right - different amounts with each edit.

Same here.

I don't think it has anything to do with the external editor.

Me Neither. It also happens if I use Winamp as external editor.

Doesn't matter if I click Done or Cancel.

It happens right after the Parsing process. So if Type Of Edit is set to Edit Actual Sound it will happen when you click Done or Cancel in the "Waiting..." dialog.
But if Edit A Copy Of The Sound is selected it will only happen if you click Done.

Using XP SP3.
Hope this helps...

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:11 am

Does it only happen with that sound and that project?

It happens in all the example songs = I guess it happens in any project here. Can you confirm this, Vibrant Audio?

What if you try it with a wave file?

Not sure what you mean. The sound file in my testrar project is a wave file...

An advice for replication:
Zoom maximum in on end of the sound and create some volume points there. Then Edit in external...

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:24 am

Hi,

I'm seeing it now. It looks like it is related to Mixcraft parsing the sound. I had tested it with a quick voice recording I'd just made in Mixcraft, so it wasn't being parsed, and I wasn't seeing the bug. That's why I asked about wave, I was thinking it was an ogg problem.

Okay, thanks for reporting this! I'll log it so it can be fixed in a future update.

Greg

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:19 pm

Bug still present in b118. Pretty annoying. Makes Edit in External Editor useless. Will this be fixed?

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:46 pm

Stop doing that.

Uffe Auring · Post by **Uffe Auring** » Sun May 31, 2009 8:29 am

Thanks for the useful information.

I'll find an alternative.

Vibrant Audio · Post by **Vibrant Audio** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:45 pm

Acoustica Greg wrote:Stop doing that.

ouch!

Uffe Auring wrote:I'll find an alternative.

OUCH!!!

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:49 pm

LOL

I wasn't being serious, of course. The bug is still logged, but a fix wasn't worked on for the last update.