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Automation disabled when rendering in Ableton

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Fox in Socks ·

Hi,

When I render (offline) a track in Ableton containing automation of a SM plugin, the automation gets disabled. Not only my plugs, but SM's sample synth build as VST does it as well! I use the newest version of SM.

Is it that I'm doing something wrong? Or is it a known issue?

Anyone?

Thanx

malc ·

Hi Fox in Socks,

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll need to have a look into this and get back to you.

Thanks,

Malc

kadettillac ·

Same problem here. Once you start rendering, the automation of all tracks containing SM plugs are disabled..

malc ·

I'm still trying to get hold of a copy of Live so I can test this out. Will get there in the end

Fox in Socks ·

Ok Malc.. Unfortunately you'll need a full version. In demo mode, rendering is disabled...

For Ableton users there's a work around. Instead of rendering, rerecord the master in real time. Down side: It takes more time and on high CPU/disk loads there's a chance of getting glitches/dropouts etc.

malc ·

Finally I got a copy of Live I can use. I can now start looking at this

Fox in Socks ·

That's great Malc! Please keep me informed..

malc ·

Ok, much banging of heads on walls I think we got somewhere.

There are two issues:

First there was an unnecessary call to set program which was causing the 'Back to Arrangement' light to come on. This was locking out the automation completely (on playback too). For this you need a new vst.dll to fix the problem. I'll email an intermediate one through to you. This problem I'm pretty sure only affects Live.

The second problem was that automation was stuttering as if it was lagging behind the main audio stream. This was apparent in other hosts too.

We tracked the problem to the de-zipper. Inside the de-zipper the 100Hz limiter should only be used for the part that switches the smoothing off. The on/off trigger and the connection to the Smooth module should bypass the limiter. See the picture below.

We'll update all affected modules in the next release.

infuzion ·

Cool! While you're at it, could you please change out the Code w/the optimized one? {OK now} 1.0.1 de-zipper's smooth simply doesn't cheers!

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