Garage Band/Addictive Drums/I Tunes problem

[lunaumbra]

Hi all. I have had a reoccurring problem that has me perplexed.

After recording a song in Garage Band using Addictive Drums, I export an mp3 to iTunes. When I play the mp3 in iTunes, the first beat of the drums is missing. The opening guitar chord is there as well as any other instrument that comes in from the beginning. Even if I export a non- compressed file, the same situation arises.

In the Garage Band playback there is no missing beat.

I semi-remedied the situation by moving the drum track a millisecond ahead then exporting an mp3.

It does not do this for every song; just the ones that have a cymbal crash to start the track it seems, but that could just be because a cymbal crash is more obvious when it’s missing.

After I find a beat I like, I drag that beat into Garage Band’s time line and go from there. Perhaps I am doing something incorrect with Addictive Drums, or missing the obvious, I don’t really know.

So, other than moving the drum track ahead every time and/or not using a beat that starts with a cymbal crash…

Any suggestions appreciated, thanks.

Ric

[fret17]

Just wondering if the same import plays properly/or not, if another media player opens it besides ITUNES?...I'm not familiar with your software but it seems to me electronic info may not be transcribing properly during the import stage with Itunes...just a guess

[monteverdejon]

does your audio start at zero on the timeline? i've never had your specific problem, but i have noticed some mp3 players (winamp, iirc) will put a split-second fade-in at the beginning of a track, even if you tell it not to. not that it's the same problem, but the solution i had to that might also work in your situation.

from what you're telling me it sounds like GB is not "seeing" the midi note with the crash at zero. i don't know GB that well, but if you can tell it to export a certain section of the timeline instead of the whole timeline, have the whole song start at bar 2 (or 3, or 5) and move back the export selection to just before the beginning of the song.

[lunaumbra]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try the mp3 and the uncompressed file in another media player and see what happens.

I'll listen more closely to the iTunes file, perhaps the other instruments are starting late also but it's such a small amount that I'm not noticing it.

I never had (or noticed) this problem until I used Addictive Drums, which I really like otherwise.

Thanks again.

Ric

[mojobone]

Have you tried exporting your track as a WAV or AIFF file and having iTunes do the MP3 conversion?

Some DAWs send a 'reset all controllers' and/or 'all notes off' MIDI message at the start of playback; don't know if that's your problem, but as a workaround, you could try adding a bar of count-in; you can always trim it off, later in an audio editor. Bit of a hassle, but it should work. (I have heard of this "first-note glitch" in some other DAWs, as well)