Live consolidation

[Rambunkcious]

Just encountered a strange issue, with everything at default (faders, pans etc) inside live 8, brand new session actually.

When editing program material in complex pro warp mode (controls also at default) and then consolidating the the two audio regions, the consolidate clip has a calibrated gain of 4.31 db instead of the default 0db.

However, when deactivating warp mode inside the unconsolidated regions and then consolidating, the newly consolidated clip's gain defaults to 0db upon completion of the process.

Any ideas? is it supposed to be doing that?
I intially though it was just a calibration issue , however ruled that out, as the new region is definitely louder then original file

[admin]

Interesting. I just opened a new session, took a clip, set it to complex pro and split then consolidated the two regions and I didn't see any gain change.

[Rambunkcious]

Thats odd, i checked my preferences and everything is also on default, weird

[admin]

Can you maybe post screenshots of the process?

[Rambunkcious]

ya will do

[Rambunkcious]

Ok, upon further inspection, and using an external dorrough meter, it seems like the unconsolidated and consolidate regions are the same volume.

here are the screenshots the first one highlights the original file, and the second is the consolidate file with the gain in the sample display (now its showing 4.68 not 4.31). The third picture is consolidation without warping leaving the gain at 0db upon completion.

in order to analyze the dynamics of the waveform, you want to look between bars 1 and 25, as the cut was made after 25. The waveforms seem different, so it seems to have altered the dynamics, which i assume is a result of the complex warp mode being engaged. Im basing this on the fact that when warping in that mode, some of the highs are attenuated.

[admin]

Screenshots are a little hard to see as they are small.

It should be an easy test though to just duplicate the track and then phase invert the consolidated versus the unconsolidated ones. But even a peak meter should show it.