I’m preparing for live performance (gulp…). So I started to export clips from my Cubase songs “en masse” by setting up stems and using Export Cycle Markers. But when importing into Ableton timing always seemed weird so I started looking at the waveforms.
It seems like Cubase “invisibly” inserts 20 or so ms of silence at the start of the files!? To double check I loaded them into Audacity, and sure enough - silence in the beginning there too. Silence that doesn’t show up in Cubase.
Here are screen shots of a 1/4 note audio Click, generated from Cubase 9.5 with the default click sound. No plugins, no external processing.
I could of course edit that out in Ableton but there are hundreds of clips. And there’s a big risk of user error. So does anybody have a clue??
Are you using Ozone or other very, very CPU and super-latency-heavy plugins on your master? Everyone I know with every DAW. including me, has a tiny bit of silence at the beginning if they use Ozone on their master.
Interesting. Not Ozone but some other quite taxing plugs on the Stereo Out. And I have five stems, each of them with the same FX-chain as Stereo Out (want be able to switch any of them in or out during performance so they need the same eq, comp and limiting). If I have all those FX-chains active at the same time and hit Play the computer grinds to an immediate halt even if I set my RME driver to max latency… But Audio Export/Mixdown has tagged along nicely so I assumed it should be fine.
Will definitely test this when I get to my computer later today! Thanks a bunch for input!
Interesting! I just assumed it was Ozone because when friends export using Ozone on Pro Tools or Logic, there’s a tiny gap in the beginning also. When I export WAVs using Ozone there’s a tiny gap at the beginning, too, as with those other DAWs.
