Midi Bounce to Disk file Missing Notes

[stevenengle]

Hello PT Community, I need your help.

Just today I started seeing an odd issue with bouncing a Midi track to disk, and when I reimport the file some of the first notes from the Midi track are missing. I have been bouncing this track successfully for several weeks, so I believe something may have corrupted and/or needs to be "reset". Here's what I've done to try and fix the issue, and nothing has worked:

1. Shutdown my PC to clear all memory.
2. Delete the notes and manually re-add them.
3. I've quantized the notes to ensure no overlapping.
4. Duplicate the track to a new track.
5. Create a new track and copy the Midi.
6. Reimport the Midi track from a backup.

After trying each of the steps above, I re-bounced the Midi track and the notes are still missing in the bounced ".wav" file. I have provided/attached a very short example of what is happening.

1. The screenshot shows the very simple Midi intro, a total of 8 notes.
Note: When I play the Midi track, it sounds correct, everything is OK.

2. I then bounce the Midi track to a ".wav" file, and 2 of the 8 notes are missing.
Note: The screenshot also shows the notes that are missing in the bounced file from the Midi track.

I really hope something just needs to be "reset", and any help is greatly appreciated - thanks!!


Steve
PC Windows 10, Pro Tools 2018.7, 32GB RAM

[stevenengle]

Note: I tried to upload the bounced ".wav" file, but that is not a supported file. Therefore, to summarize, the "red" notes in the attachment are missing from the bounced Midi file.

Thanks again for any help!

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by stevenengle

Note: I tried to upload the bounced ".wav" file, but that is not a supported file. Therefore, to summarize, the "red" notes in the attachment are missing from the bounced Midi file.

Thanks again for any help!

Couple of things:
If you want to have an audio file played posters usually put the file in a Dropbox or another hosting service and put a link to the file in the post.

With regards to the missing notes try this:
shorten ever so slightly either the start of the missing notes or the end of the previous notes. The notes may be overlapping each other. Quantize won't necessarily solve the issue of overlap. Watch your grid mode when doing this so you can move in fine increments.

[stevenengle]

Thanks, I moved the notes ever so slightly at the end of each note, and that seems to have fixed the problem. But, I'm still confused as to why this was happening? For example, it has been Bouncing OK for weeks, and I have not modified that part of the track. Also, the Midi plays correctly every time, it's only when I Bounce the track does this issue occur. And, I tried copying the same part from a different part of the track, which does Bounce OK, and then that doesn't work after Bouncing it. Somethings odd, it seems like something happened in the first couple measures, and only modifying the notes completely fixed it.

Thanks for your help!!

Steve

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by stevenengle

Thanks, I moved the notes ever so slightly at the end of each note, and that seems to have fixed the problem. But, I'm still confused as to why this was happening? For example, it has been Bouncing OK for weeks, and I have not modified that part of the track. Also, the Midi plays correctly every time, it's only when I Bounce the track does this issue occur. And, I tried copying the same part from a different part of the track, which does Bounce OK, and then that doesn't work after Bouncing it. Somethings odd, it seems like something happened in the first couple measures, and only modifying the notes completely fixed it.

Thanks for your help!!

Steve

Some vi's don't play well with notes that are too close together or overlap. That it worked at all to begin with isn't unusual. I didn't say to move the notes but to shorten ever so slightly the note at either the beginning of the red marked note or the tail of the note preceeding it.

[stevenengle]

Yes, by "moving" the notes, I meant that I shortened them ever so slightly and that fixed the problem - thanks again!