Audition Playback randomly mutes sound on track

[tessab26096858]

I have on my Win-10 based laptop, beweset Audition a 25-tracks project and when I play it back, then randomly on some tracks (bass / piano / etc) a light noise appears and the original sound is gone.

• The playhead moves forward
• When I replay the part by moving the playhead back, then the sound is there
• Audio-specs: in and output are the same
• When I export, then the noise and lack of track-suond is always on the same place of the exported file
• It's an onboard MIME soundcard
• Drivers and Audition are up tio date
• Laptop is restarted
• I clicked with my heels
• No other programs are active

Can this be caused by the VST plugins that I use?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Yes it could, but we'd need a lot more information about your session and the effects you are using to determine exactly what is happening. If you try pre-rendering the tracks with the effects, does the same thing happen? Whatever is causing this, it doesn't sound hardware-related, and somehow I doubt whether clicking your heels made a lot of difference... 😉

[tessab26096858]

Hi thank you
When I solo one track, it happens too.

[tessab26096858]

and in addition: there is some compression and EQ on the tracks that do this. Other tracks don't

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Are these Audition's native effects, or external ones?

[tessab26096858]

Some are Audition native and some are new, VST plugins

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

If you remove the external VSTs and just use the native ones, does the same thing happen?

[tessab26096858]

Yes it has something to do with the VST's: I only play 1 track with 2 VST's (EQ abd Bass-optimizer) and when I both switch them off, then the track sounds continously. When one of them is switched on, then the track randomly stops giving sound and only a white noise is heard. The playhead moves. When I check this against the workload, then only the network seems to have peaks during the white noise. No processorpeaks, no GPU peaks, only network peaks.

I will check the provider of the plugins what this can mean. In the meanwhile I will copy my project to another PC where I will continue testing, thank you so far.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

Usually when something like that happens with a plugin, it means that it's the unregistered version...

[tessab26096858]

Oh yes, that is what happened. I see that now on the details of the plugin.I got these plugins from my school and assumed they were ok. But they're trial versions..... Thank you anyway!