Bounced track does not include plugin and animation
Nov 26th, 2020, 03:21
Bouncing in place is of course one of the most essential tool we use for our daily working on our audio projects. Today I notice a problem: The resulting bounced audio file does not seem to include the Plugin effect nor their animation.
In this example I am bouncing a summation folder of 6 audio tracks, each with their own regional animations, as well as an overall Gain track animation on the Folder track. As all the bounces does not seem to be reflecting the gain plugin settings, I have grossly increased(and decreased) the gain on one small segment to see if this is really the case, and once again the increase of 24dB(!) in gain(or decrease of 96dB) did nothing to the bounced result. I have also tried adding yet another Gain plugin to set at +24dB with no animation, the result was the same. Opening up the folder to select the tracks instead to bounce also made no difference.
I am sure that none of my plugins has been bypassed either on the channel strip or the bounce in place dialogue box, and that the track has been selected and soloed.
If I just play through, the segment is crazily loud, but not so on the bounced track. I have always thought that bouncing should be what you hear is what you get.
This is of great concern as I can never be confident now whether any adjustment I have made before bouncing will be included in the the new bounces. I use bouncing heavily during different stages of my workflow for resources as well as organization and this is one function that I need to be dependable!
Any help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated! It is probably just something silly that I have missed(like not setting automation to sample accurate and thus have avoided using it for years!)