Silence at the beginning of stereo out export

ravi27 · October 9, 2021, 1:18pm

cubase is adding silence at the beginning of only stereo out exports.
but If I render stems, all the other tracks are perfect but the stereo out. please help

Martin.Jirsak · October 10, 2021, 7:06pm

Hi and welcome to the forum,

By default, Cubase exports the Locators range. What is your Locators settings, please? Did you keep this settings in the Export Audio Mixdown window?

ravi27 · October 10, 2021, 11:01pm

The locaters are set to at the complete begining.
And as I said the issue is only there with the stereo out, if I render any other track or the stems, all the other tracks would not have any silence before the audio.

Is it due to plugin delay compensation not working properly?
There is a limiter on the stereo out, even it’s bypassed though

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 6:26am

Hi,

Does the music also start at the very beginning. A screenshot might help.

Do you mean Render or Export Audio Mixdown, please?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 6:50am

I meant audio mixdown by render.

And here’s a screenshot.

The second track here is the exported stereo out and the first track is the guitar track stem exported from the same project (this project starts with this guitar,so)
You can clearly see that both exported tracks don’t align.
The stereo out mixdown has few seconds of silence before the start.

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 7:40am

Hi,

It seems, it’s zoomed in quite a lot. What is the delta time between these two signals, please?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 7:52am

The difference is about 1/4th of beat.

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 7:56am

Hi,

In time, please?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 7:56am

About a 100 msec

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 8:05am

Hi,

Is it always the same? Could you try to decrease the Buffer Size, please?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:06am

About 100 msec

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:12am

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 8:16am

Hi,

Sorry, I don’t know, what the last picture should show? If you make a picture, could you please make a screenshot (use the system screenshot feature, please).

Could you try to decrease the Buffer Size and export again, please? Is the offset smaller?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:17am

Why would buffer size affect an exported audio file?
And the buffer size is already at 64

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

Martin.Jirsak · October 11, 2021, 8:20am

Hi,

OK, could you try to increase the Buffer Size? Does the offset increase?

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:33am

It’s an issue of plugin delay compensation.
Cubase is not compensating for the latency caused by the master limiter.

I tried mastering the same project (limiter, Multi-band compression, linear phase eq) and the silence at the beginning has increased by 3 times since there are more plugins causing more latency

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:35am

look at the attached screenshot, do still believe it’s a small diffrence

ravi27 · October 11, 2021, 8:48am

Previous attachment was wrong, here’s the correct one

Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana

ravi27 · October 12, 2021, 12:31am

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Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Romana