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  • Sound of bounce changes to what I hear in the daw

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    Hello All, I am sorry if this is a very basic question and has been asked here before. I use keyswitching in my templates. While I do production and program using products from Vienna cube, I feel they sound perfect and very natural. But when i bounce down stems or do a stereo bounce ( I do offline bouncing mainly) i feel the sound changes and the performance feels less natural. I use VI pro and Vienna ensemble ( non pro) and cu ase 9.5. Are there any guidelines for me to follow before the stemming or exporting process? Thanks everyone.
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    A few things come to mind:

    Are you using the fader controllers (pitch wheel, CC Controlers, etc.) on your keyboard to control velocity crossfade, expression atack, etc.?  Maybe the CC data of the controllers isn't bouncing with the MIDI.  Mayber check your bounce settings?

    Are you optomizing the samples?  The feature where you purge the unnecessary samples out of RAM?  Be sure not to make any changes after you purge because that can really screw things up. 

    Are you possibly bouncing two or more tracks instead of the one you think you are? 
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    Hi Jasensmith, I do use the fader controls, use a lot of them Infact including humanise functions, vel xf, slot xf, expression, also use note velocity for staccatos and short notes etc. Standard programming skills are fine for me i think. I have not used the optimise learn feature. I feel it is maybe unnecessary because I use the load upon activity option in my template for vsl samples. Maybe I am wrong and i should use the optimise function tok, will try next time. My main issues comes for any kind of bounce. I usually do bounce all stems at once from the track export in Cubase. And also i bounce the stereo mix from the template as a separate bounce. I hear the music one way and very natural while in the daw, and once i export and listen back to the audio it seems a bit less natural and slightly programmed and robotic. I am a bit unsure what it is i am doing different / wrong. Also I can't really show any example of this weird issue. Any tips? Thanks and regards Neelesh
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    I don't have a solution to your problem, but I suppose it would be helpful if you had audio examples of the differences?
    You could try using a software that records the audio out of our computer, such as "Total Recorder" which IIRC has a free evaluation version (noise every 60 seconds).

    I would consider the following steps:

    1. Record one minute of the "correct" audio out, while listening to playback through Cubase.
    2. Export the same part through the export dialogue in Cubase (same audio format as 1).
    3. Import both files on different tracks in a new Cubase project, zoom in as far as possible and line them up 100% correctly.
    4. Normalize. If you think the differences between the tracks are completely obvious, you could upload/post them here.
    5. If you want to be absolutely sure if there are differences, flip the phase of one track by 180°. If you press play and don't hear anything, the files are identical. If you still hear something, the files are different.
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    Hi Neel,

    I don't know if you have the same problem as I did. The sound in DAW was way different than when I played it back on PC. I found out that the problem was in Windows sound settings. You have to turn off audio enhancements (which usually are turned on) - google it out how to do it, it differs from windows versions.

    Give it a try maybe you have the same problem.
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    Hi Neel,

    My guess would be that your keyswitches are perfectly aligned with the notes. In my experience, the order of MIDI events in this case is not guaranteed with Cubase starting at least with 8.x versions. Usually, the keyswitch gets in before the note it controls, but it's not 100%. If the guess is correct, try to move keyswitches a few ticks below the actual notes, and check the bounce results.

    Cheers,

    Crusoe.
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    @crusoe said:

    Hi Neel,

    My guess would be that your keyswitches are perfectly aligned with the notes. In my experience, the order of MIDI events in this case is not guaranteed with Cubase starting at least with 8.x versions. Usually, the keyswitch gets in before the note it controls, but it's not 100%. If the guess is correct, try to move keyswitches a few ticks below the actual notes, and check the bounce results.

    Cheers,

    Crusoe.

     

     

     

    Thanks Crusoe and everyne else for their suggestions. I do notice that issue with the keyswitches, so I usually keep them a few ticks etc before the change is supposed to hit.... maybe I am missing it out and keeping it really close to the notes in the sections that i feel arent that great, ill check that and see how it turns out to be... 

     

    thanks a lot again everyone

    cheers