Exporting has 1.5 second silence at beginning

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Hey all,

New to Cubase 14, but have been using it since 2003. The new version came with a new interface (UR24C) and it works well for everything I have tried so far.

It records perfectly, and plays back perfectly, but when I set the locators and bounce the file, the first 1.5 seconds are silent. The track then begins 1.5 seconds in, which is problematic.

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong here? I have checked the locators and automations, and everything seems where it should be. I’ve tried exporting as wav, flac, mp3 and they all have the issue.

Thanks!

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Hi and welcome to the forum,

Any Trial/Demo plug-in involved? Is the Left Locator set to the beginning of the music?

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Thanks for your reply Martin,

No trial plug-ins. I am using some old izotope rx plug-ins, but i have tried exporting with them bypassed and deleted entirely. They worked fine with Cubase 10 though. Both locators are set correctly.

Have recently upgraded to Win 11, so it’s possible that is at play. Just cant figure it out.

Thanks for the help!

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I was having the same issue in Cubase 13. It is only when exporting to WAV; mp3 doesn’t do this.
I discovered that if you set the bit depth to one of the “float” options (32 bit float or 64 bit float) it does not do this. I don’t know why.
Edit: I concluded the problem was actually the media player, not Cubase.

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Hi,

This is great point!

@andrew.waggenspack, try to use other player and try to import the exported files back to Cubase, please.

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My first idea was the media player as well. It was the same in whichever players I tried (including Media Player Classic, foobar, vlc) and had an obvious signal issue in cubase.

Apparently Cubase closed abruptly and just started up in safe mode, with an option to disable all 3rd party plugins. I tried that and it was able to export in any format, bit depth and frequency.

The first project I bounced was set in 32 bit, rather than 32 bit float, which I thought was the answer. But after closing Cubase and restarting in the full fully, rather than in safe mode, the problem persisted when I tried bouncing again. Once I deleted the old izotope plugins it was able to export correctly again.

In my early attempts to troubleshoot, I was just bypassing the plugins but left them in the chain. After removing them from the chain exporting worked as expected.

Thank you very much for your help!! Hopefully it is resolved now.