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problems with volumes

BasicBoy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 11:51 AM ive recently noticed that on a few of my tracks the volumes seem to change by themselves. a beat or synth or whatever will be playing all on its own then when more stuff plays it goes quieter and i havent set it to change or anything.i thought it mite b my hearing but i played it and watched it change on the mixer.when i played it on its own the green in the mixer was halfway then when i played it with something else it went to a quarter. anyone know what this could be or how to sort it out??
Opossum	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 11:55 AM Depends. Sometimes (non-multi-band) compression (in real time) over the whole mix can do that, or using a chorus or similar effect, especially for mono parts.
iamseymour	Date: October 16, 2007 @ 12:25 AM man, that sounds like a bug (unless you have a compressor on) I have been usig FL since version 1 and I haven't had that problem....
celtaidd	Date: October 16, 2007 @ 3:25 AM When you play the track with FL keep the step sequencer open and keep an eye on the volume knobs. If they randomly silence the beat or synth, check Automation in the browser to see if thats set to mute
orgasmotron	Date: October 18, 2007 @ 12:30 AM yass thats bizarro that you say the volume on the mixer actually changes when you play other parts. are those parts sent to the same f/x channel? this can cause frequency or phase cancellations, try sending your sounds to different effect channels and see if the problem persists. ditto to the deal with compressors, be careful with them or they can really blood up a mix.
BasicBoy	Date: October 18, 2007 @ 7:17 AM all im using in the song are a few styrus's and a few samples.all the channels are set to diff mixer channels and i havent added any other effects.it seems to be just strus's it does with.one will play and sound quite loud then when everything else kicks in the whole song goes quieter its just gettin really annoying.im goin 2 try and change it all to .wav and lay it out again and c if that helps
hantu	Date: October 24, 2007 @ 1:57 AM That is strange, my sytrus doesn't do that. "i havent added any other effects" What do you mean? you have some effects on there? if so, disable ALL effects with the handy little "FX" button under each fx channel. Still no luck? Start up a new project, load up several sytrus channels (with the same setting if you like), and see if it still does it.
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 24, 2007 @ 2:02 AM i sometimes get a similar issue but i'm not using FL, it's down to my soundcard having a built-in EQ and when it hits a certain volume with certain ranges boosted, they cut out something horrible. if you have a soundcard with settings like that, check those levels also.
pog	Date: October 24, 2007 @ 12:38 PM yes... I have seen this happen with certain soundcards. What happens is the soundcard manufacturer releases an update which overdrives the card. If you turn the volume up past 75% it bogs down and signal loss occurs. Try going into your control panel and dropping the volume level on both the main volume and wave playback volume... drop them to 50% and then compensate the volume drop by turning up your speakers/amplifier. If the compression stops, then the problem is in the soundcard, and you should find the sweet spot... I have found in the past usually about 75% is best, but it depends.
leedsquietman	Date: October 24, 2007 @ 10:32 PM this is especially true if you have a card with EQ or DSP features such as E-mu's cards, although their cards are pretty stellar, but if you push too much this will happen. Also, if your soundcard supports it, try recording in 24 bit format instead of 16 bit, it allows a lot of extra headroom, so you can record at a lower level to help prevent clipping/compression and then 'fix in the mix'. Make sure you put a dither plug on the output/master track though and render the mastered track to 16 bit if you want to be able to rip a CD or mp3.