I’m fairly new to WaveLab but I’ve used Pro Tools for over 20 years, so I know my way around DAWs and audio. This might be a common issue, so sorry if it is – I just haven’t found a solution. When I open a montage and play it, each clip fades in the first time, but after that they play fine. However, when I render offline, all the clips have these unwanted fade-ins, like the plugin buffers aren’t ready or something. What could be causing this, and how have people worked around or solved it?
I’ve seen this a few times over the years. The cause is usually unsupported or incorrectly coded 3rd Party Plugins.
99% of the time, the fix needs to come from the plugin developer. My workaround is to not use such plugins.
That said, there are a couple settings in WaveLab that you could try toggling to see if it has a positive effect on what you’re doing without creating any issues.
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when I click on the “?” to find more about the preferences, the link does not work as expected
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Thanks so much for the quick reply! It was indeed a plugin causing it (Kazrog’s new 2077 EQ fwiw.) Removing it fixed the issue. Also, disabling the “Reset Plug-ins When Starting PlayBack /Renders” fixed it as well.
Interesting find. I’ve had this happen over the years with a few trusted plugins from DMG and Softube/Weiss but they seemed to be easily fixed once I reported the issue to the developer(s).
If I recall correctly, Kazrog once said that he uses WaveLab for his mastering work so it seems like there should be some incentive/ability to fix this issue.
WaveLab definitely operates differently than most mixing DAWs so it’s important that plugin developers follow the VST3 spec close enough so that the plugin behaves “normally”. Ideally the plugin is tested within WaveLab as well though clearly there are some that do not and assume that if the VST3 version works in Cubase it should be fine in WaveLab too, which is not usually the case.
I personally keep the “Reset Plug-ins When Starting PlayBack /Renders” on so that (in theory) I always know that my renders are being done the exact same way every time.
In short, WaveLab makes a copy of what you are rendering behind the scenes so that you can do other things during the render. For some plugins, they have a hard time with this concept and rendering issues occur.