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Old 10-26-2019, 11:29 PM   #1
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Hello!

I’ve imported a mp3 in a Reaper project.
The mp3 contains some guitarr playing that a friend of mine have been recording.
Now I’ve added some piano to that in two other audio tracks, so a total of three tracks.

When I render this to a wav or mp3 file and start playing them they are completely silent!

What can the reason be for that?

The files have audio (information) in them because when I add them in a new Reaper project and play them everything is there and sounds exactly the same as in the Reaper project and the actual recordings.

I’ve been rendering some other small projects before, with audio tracks containing only own recordings and not imported mp3’s and it has never been a problem after rendering them. They all have sound when listening to them. Can the reason be that I have an imported mp3 file in the project?

Hope to get some ideas of sollutions about this

Thanks in advance!

/Honka

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Old 10-27-2019, 02:36 AM   #2
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It's not clear what this means

The files have audio (information) in them because when I add them in a new Reaper project and play them everything is there and sounds exactly the same as in the Reaper project and the actual recordings.

So you're saying if you play the rendered files in Reaper they are not silent??
In which case you need to explain where they are (appearing to be)silent.

You could post a sample file....or a screencap of your render settings to help pinpoint where this is going wrong.
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Old 11-05-2019, 01:16 PM   #3
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Hello again!

Sorry for really late reply.

The problem was that when playing the rendered file the sound was sent to my other pair of headphones.

The thing is that I´ve succeeded to listen to a rendered song through my studio earphones that I use when recording in Reaper etc. Both recording and rendered file sound played in my studio earphones. But then this changed for some reason. I might have been in Settings or something to change this.

But that was the problem.

(Yes this is the newbie section of the forum)
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Old 11-05-2019, 01:38 PM   #4
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Honka: Reaper has settings for the audio device it uses, and this can be different than what you have set up in Windows. You can set them both the same, if you like (as long as you don't tick on the setting to lock them exclusively to an app). You can change the windows sound several ways. One way is to left click the speaker icon in the tray by your time (bottom right, generally) and then hit that carat ^ symbol to show more options. Another way.. control panel, sound.

I personally tend to keep them different for a variety of reasons. 1) I like to hear songs on a variety of speakers (everyone producing music should)and headphones 2) I think my PC has more than enough horsepower for this to be a worry, generally, but I like to limit any interference/processing problems, etc. that may be caused by something else using the sound card while I'm doing stuff.
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Old 11-10-2019, 10:28 AM   #5
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Thanks for your reply naits!

Yes I guess that it can be quite handy to seperate the sound from creating music and listen to the result.

Thanks!

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