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MartinOmnipolis
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October 13, 2023
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Help: effect settings in multitrack view default and turn off when I re-open the effects settings

  • October 13, 2023
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Dear expert community members, I am facing a perplexing issue:

— I am editing a podcast in Multitrack view,

— I am adding an effect to a particular track in the effects rack (my current case: a noise gate from the "Dynamics ..." submenu),

— I am changing a parameter (say, threshold from -20 to -30 db),

— I am closing the effects dialog window to work on something else.

 

I can now playback the track and everything works nicely. HOWEVER: When I return to the same effects setting, say because I want to tweak it, it returns to default *the moment I open the settings window* ("Dynamics ..." in this case). So I can only effect the settings one single time — as soon as I go back to the settings, they switch off (!) and default back to the company setting.

 

Is anyone else experiencing this? And what can I do about it? On here, I have only found a single post from 2017 that deals with a similar issue, but it was resolved in ways that do not work for me. I have tried re-installing Audition, but that did not help. My version of Audition is 23.6.1.3, on a Mac OS Big Sur 11.7.10.

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 13, 2023

    If you are only applying a single effect to the track, then try turning the Automation setting from Read to Off. Chances are that all your effect is doing is following the automation commands, which on the face of it, you don't need.

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    MartinOmnipolisAuthor
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    October 23, 2023

    It's taken me a while ... but I can report back that I've finally figured out that it seems to have been my mistake as a user: When I wanted to go back and edit the effect settings, I would click on the effect in the effects rack. Then, in the menu that pops up, I would not click on "edit effect" but rather go down into the submenu and (re)select the effect again, to edit it. But Audition seems to interpret that as "starting over with the effect" and so it resets to default. I am fairly convinced that it did not do that before, but at least now I know how to make it all work.

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