I’ve been having this issue for a while, it seems to be worsening. I am using SL10.0.50 in Digital Performer in ARA mode, and when I close my project and reopen it, all the layers I created to make edits on are gone. The only way I can make the edits I want to make is by exporting the sound files into the SL app, editing them, and returning them to DP - very much not ideal, it would be great to have ARA working.
Previously this only happened at certain places in the timeline of a project, so I could keep some of my ARA edits. But I just reopened such a project and ALL of the edit layers are gone.
Additionally, if I go back to a previously saved version of the project, the edit layers are gone in those as well. In other words, there is no recovery from this.
This is exceptionally frustrating. Any ideas?
I’m on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro, Monterey 12.7.4, Digital Performer 11.31
Thanks.
Thanks for reporting, first time I hear about this issue. I’ll do some checks with Digital Performer and see what happens.
Many thanks. I reported this to MOTU as well, here are the steps I gave them to reproduce:
Select either way of using SpectraLayers in ARA mode, soundbites or tracks.
Double click on soundbite to open SL.
Cut part of the soundbite into a new layer using SL. Make edits in that layer using SpectraLayers.
Save Project.
Close project.
Reopen project. All layers other than the top layer of the soundbite are gone.
I have the same problem with using SL in Nuendo as an ARA extension, and I have seen this reported a few times previously. This was a problem in SL 10 and STILL in SL 11. When closing a project and returning later, spectralayer data is missing and just plays silence during playback. I have to remove the spectralayers extension from all the clips to restore playback and lose all edits. This makes it almost unusable in practical application. The only workaround I have found so far is to finish my editing, drop layers back on the timeline and make extension permanent, which means I have to decide everything in one pass before saving and closing, or I lose all of my work.
@tonycore FWIW I can’t repro with SL 11.0.10 and Digital Performer 11.32
@MrKeyz Do you have a simple step by step to repro with Nuendo ? Tried to repro with SL 11…0.10 and Nuendo 13.0.41 but couldn’t.
Hmmm. It’s been reported by at least one other DP user on facebook.
I’m away from my studio for a couple weeks but I’ll check back in and see what else I can write about it when i’m back
Tony
Robin, what MrKeyz has pointed out happens to me as well.
The step by step to reproduce this in my case is:
Put some audio into SL11 in ara2, unmix it using unmix noisy speech, do anything to the layers, save project, close the project, nuendo, restart computer.
Open project again, events processed will be silent, with no visible layers. You have to remove the extension to “recover” the events audio.
It is so common here that I never leave any events with SL on them, always make permanent or bounce.
@tonycore see my attempt to repro here:
@henrique_staino @MrKeyz see my attempt to repro here: