Freeze creates an audio file at about half the tempo

Cubasis
#1

Using Alchemy v2.3.1 as an IAA Midi track in Cubasis v1.8.1, the Freeze doesn’t seem to work right.

When I use the freeze button on a 4 bar loop, the resulting audio file is about 9 bars 1 beat long with a tail.

Is this a known issue? Would it be an issue with Alchemy or with Cubasis?

#2

Hi daveproper,

Isn’t reproducible here with Alchemy 2.2… and 2.3.1 and cubasis 1.8.1.
Please send us an detail step by step description or the project.

Note : reduce the release time in alchemy to zero and check freeze again.

best
jan

#3

I’m not sure what fixed it, but the same project is now working correctly. Perhaps I needed to perform a restart or something. Thank you for checking on it!

#4

I have had similar issues with both iMini and Galileo organ running in IAA. When creating a mix down or audio freeze the IAA tracks seemed slowed down.

Sometimes a restart would temporarily fix the issue, sometimes not.

I think I have tracked it down to being the hardware buffer size, and somehow this is being affected by the settings in audiobus even though audio bus is no longer used once I have recorded an audio track with it. Once i match audiobus and cubasis buffer size, the freeze and mixdown works ok. I am keeping my eye on this to see if my findings are constant or as variable as the results I get when restarting.

#5

Dear AndyPlankton,

on our side, we are still having trouble to reproduce the problem here… would you mind to share a detailed step by step description of your work around? That would be nice!

Thanks,
RG

#6

Hi All,

Please deactivate monitoring ( the yellow track button), before you use freeze or mixdown !

Bug : Active monitoring creates long tail with freeze or mixdown. Will be fixed in the next update.

To daveproper,

There is a new download for Alchemy 2.3.2

-Fixed Inter App Audio connection with Garageband.

best
jan