Hello,
I am experiencing an unexpected playback issue in SLP9 and want to double-check with you.
My source material is an environmental sound recording. I am cutting a discontinuous spectral selection across the audio to a new layer (“cut special”). Then, I stretch the new layer using the Transform tool. I am also creating other layers with different spectral selections from the original material, with no further processing.
The problem occurs when I simultaneously playback the stretched layer with any other layers. The transformed layer “mutes” the other/s when there is no sound, acting as a “gate” of sorts.
The stretched layer consists of short audio intervals with silence between them. If any other layer with continuous sound is active, it is only audible when audio is present on the problematic layer (i.e. I hear both mixed, as you would expect); but there is no sound otherwise. If I make inactive the transformed layer, the audio behaves as usual.
Interestingly, if I “Merge Up” the continuous layer with the transformed one (either one placed above/below the other), the resulting layer has “holes” (i.e. the constant layer gets cut up accordingly to the audio present in the problematic layer).
At first, I thought it was a bug, but I reproduced this problem using different source recordings. I would not expect this to happen, and it seems to be related to the Transform operation.
However, I tried reproducing it with a new project using noise generated within SLP9 as source material. Everything behaves as one would expect.
Also, in one of my tests, I experienced audio drops when the transformed layer plays simultaneously with others. (EDIT: further info and screenshots on this case in a reply post below in this thread).**
Any ideas? Did anyone experience something similar?
I appreciate any help you can provide.
Many thanks in advance.