I just put a mix together, all beats are meshing perfectly when I play the mix back in MMP6 but when I export to a file (or files) in any format (inlcuding .WAV), the beats are very slightly (but noticably) off. This is driving me nuts! I can't work around this by recording off my sound card internally as my soundcard doesn't allow me to (Sigmatel STAC9120). Anyone have this problem? I need to get this mix onto a CD ASAP!

Have you tried just using Pro 6 to burn directly to CD, without going thru the extra (usually unnecessary) step of exporting to wav first? Do you still get the problem when you do that?

Please let us know.

I'll give that a try and let you know... I would have tried that already but I'm out of CD-Rs!

hey hey!!!...we have another spaceman here! ...D'oh!!! j/k

yep, they told us one day it would get crowded in space ... guess that day is fast approaching

This also happens for me too.

very annoying, as i use this for my mixes at work.

But what about the "burn CD directly out of the program" aspect -- in this thread, that question has gone unanswered.

Is the mix off only when you export to wav and wma? Is it also off when you burn a CD?

Yes. When you burn directly out of the program the mixes are off also (eventhough they sound fine in the program). I am having the same problem. I have tried WAV and WMA - and both mixes are off. I even adjusted the sound card settings and still no luck.
Any Ideas ?

One more thing and then I'll admit I'm out of suggestions ...

What about compression, the basic compression that comes with the program ... do you use this (or any compression at all)? If so, when do you apply it, at the beginning when you start work or not until the end and the mix is finished?

I once made a mix, forgot about compression until the end and applied it globally before I exported my mix. The transitions were off. I tend to believe that would not be the case for every type of music, but it certainly affected what I was working on.

If this has nothing to do with your situation (and I admit it's a long shot) then I think it's time to contact MM tech support.

I'm also having this issue, even with 'Snap To beat' selected and I find it extremely frustrating. This is especially frustrating when I'm preparing for a session later that evening. What I have to do to work around it is:

1. Switch off the "Snap To Beat" button on the toolbar.
   
   
2. Select the track that is being mixed 'into', where the foul up occurs
   
   
3. Use the mouse to Nudge the mix bracer a little to the left (it's always to the left, never to the right).
   
   
4. Export to mixed file(s) again
   
   
5. Use a program like WinAmp to open the WAV file. Press CTRL + J and jump to the start position of the track that was giving problems.
   
   
6. You will have to keep repeating this process until you hear a perfectly mixed transition.
   

As you might see, this is an extremely nauseating and tedious process - but it works. In my opinion, it defeats the purpose of using MixMeister in the first place (unless you are going to perform the mix every time you want to record it).

There doesn't even seem to be a determinable pattern for which types of tracks mix great in MixMeister, but are thrown out of sync when you export to WAV. Sometimes even when you use the "Snap-to-Beat" and it mixes great, once you export to WAV, the Mix synchronisation is lost.

Personally I find it very annoying - and am currently starting to go back to Ableton Live! since it has a far more reliable mixing algorithm. The only drawback to using Ableton Live!, is that you have to perform the mix in order to record it. That's why I had picked up MixMeister in the first place - because that's the only feature it has that Ableton does not.

I sincerely hope the software developers treat this bug with the topmost priority, because I think that's a fantastic feature that sells - if they can get it to work properly. I hope they don't wait until Ableton developers beat them to it and include this feature in their studio before they can fix it in MixMeister.

Cheers

spaceman, djgabor, xen... That's certainly not the intended behavior of the software, and I'm sure there's some way to resolve the trouble you're having.

You really ought to contact tech support for assistance.

((( ardent )))

Ok

My problem is exactly the same, and curiously, i'm not the only one.
I use MM for mixing a radio show, the mix is perfect when i perform it, beatmatch is clean to the bone. BUT. As soon i want to export as a WAV file or a WMA file, the mix seems to be done by another one. Beat matching is non correct on ONE transition, but listening to it, it is always perfect in MM.

So ... after looking for every combination possible, asking myself if i'm crazy, i just understood that there is a REAL FAT problem to solve here.

And there is definitively no ghosts in my machine.

I was looking for all that since 8 hours, and i'm understanding that absolutely NOTHING comes out a problem that EVERYBODY haves.

The question is:
Is someone from this company can fix that unbelievable bug, or do we all change for Abbleton Live ?

Because if we cant mix with this dj-mix-software, what else can i do with it ?
Frisbee ?

Can a user explain what is happening ?
Thanks.

quote:

The question is:
Is someone from this company can fix that unbelievable bug

If you look at Ardent's post above, you'll see a link to Tech Support - Follow that and report your issue to them.

Not "EVERYBODY" has this problem!

6 Exports fine for me and always has!

R.

Same here to be honest, never had a problem but maybe there is something these guys are doing in common that does cause the problem?

Anyone who's having this trouble fancy posting screenshots of mixes that have gone "off"? Might give us some clues.

Likewise ... never had this problem.

Can there be a security / virus checker program running in the background while you export that would cause this?

Also, most of these ppl never responded about compression, and no one ever posted back about tech support solutions (if any were given that solved the problem.) So it's hard to know what the status actually is

Also check that the files are CBR and not VBR.

CBR and VBR ?
Where to check that ?

> I've tryed to burn a cd, problem is the same.

I can't remember off the top of my head but I think it might tell you in the bitrate section of the file properties if you right click the tune in your catalog.

Even if it doesn't state whether it's VBR or CBR I'm pretty sure it tells you the bitrate, VBR's will have uncommon numbers here as it reports the average bitrate whereas CBR files will commonly report one of 96, 128, 160,192,256 or 320 kbps.

I'm assuming they are mp3 files by the way, the above is not true for wma and .wav are always effectively 1411kbps CBR.