Can't remove clip effects in Multitrack Session (FAO SuiteSpot...)

Report · Mar 31, 2025

I have a huge problem I can't seem to solve. I have an audio multitrack project with maybe 8 hours of content on 24 tracks. It's about a 8 day edit so far. I was almost finished with the edit when I was doing some sweetening at the beginning of the program. I added a reverb to a clip and suddenly the screen began to flash and lock up, strobing as the reverb interface flashed. I thought the program was crashing and quickly hit save. BIG mistake. What had happened was I had used a select to end of session before this reverb and without realizing it 1000's of clips were selected when I added the reverb to the one clip I wanted so ALL clips suddenly were being given the reverb clip effect. On no. Ok no worries right? I looked at the saved session. It was saved WITH this error. No worries, I looked in the auto save. For some reason the last one without this error was about 24 hours before. When I saved in panic, it replaced the last autosave with this bad version. OK history? nope. When I opened the session the history was gone.

So that is the sad story. 1000's of clips all with a bad reverb effect that I can't seem to find a way to remove? I looked in the manual, online, tutorials and nothing shows how all effects can be removed or how effects from a selected group of clips can be removed. Or even how a track can have all effects turned off. These are not Track Effects, these are clip effects.

Any ideas on how I can fix this situation. The only clear way is to clip each clip 1 through 1000 and "remove effect". Or start over and redo a day of work.

Report · Mar 31, 2025

I think you need SuiteSpot to have a look at your session file - hopefully he'll see the thread now it's drawn to his attention! He's the go-to guru for this sort of thing - if anybody can fix it, he can.

Report · Mar 31, 2025

Yes Thanks Luckily I am not under deadline, so I'd rather investigate options rather than manually removing the effect from each clip.

Although I can't sent it because "

The attachment's audio book 4.sesx content type (application/octet-stream) does not match its file extension and has been removed" and .ZIP is not supported. ?

Report · Mar 31, 2025

I can see the effect in the sesx data for the reverb in the code. If I could replace this with it removed for all instances with Find Replace :

<effectsRack preFader="true">
            <component componentGuid="5d0b2a12-f22b-4a4f-8f26-3548f14dc48d" componentID="Audition.ComponentGroup" id="rackMix" powered="true">
              <parameter index="0" parameterValue="0"/>
              <parameter index="1" parameterValue="0"/>
            </component>
            <component componentGuid="bb0e3126-ae01-45e1-893a-cc8b14af1fff" id="rackInput" powered="true">
              <parameter index="0" parameterValue="1"/>
              <parameter index="1" parameterValue="0"/>
            </component>
            <component componentGuid="dc24bc74-3427-4950-a0bb-46d0ee39e496" id="rackOutput" powered="true">
              <parameter index="0" parameterValue="1"/>
              <parameter index="1" parameterValue="0"/>
            </component>
            <slot powered="true" slotIndex="0">
              <component componentGuid="b993515f-dc17-4fd2-b5c9-9da5f11e2bcc" componentID="7ea99d31-ca8f-454f-acd7-81a258efb336" editorHeight="917" editorLeft="1517" editorTop="596" editorWidth="807" name="Studio Reverb" presetName="(Default)">
                <busConfig><![CDATA[{"in":[{"layout":[0],"name":"","type":0}],"out":[{"layout":[0],"name":"","type":0}]}]]></busConfig>
                <parameter index="0" name="Low Frequency Cut" parameterValue="0.21607999503612518310546875"/>
                <parameter index="1" name="High Frequency Cut" parameterValue="0.68968999385833740234375"/>
                <parameter index="2" name="Room Size" parameterValue="0.6969699859619140625"/>
                <parameter index="3" name="Width" parameterValue="0.25"/>
                <parameter index="4" name="Diffusion" parameterValue="0.5"/>
                <parameter index="5" name="Damping" parameterValue="0.5"/>
                <parameter index="6" name="Decay" parameterValue="0.234694004058837890625"/>
                <parameter index="7" name="Early Reflections" parameterValue="0.519999980926513671875"/>
                <parameter index="8" name="Early Reflections Delay" parameterValue="0.5"/>
                <parameter index="9" name="Dry Output Level" parameterValue="0.75"/>
                <parameter index="10" name="Wet Output Level" parameterValue="0.25"/>
                <parameter index="11" name="Is Processing" parameterValue="0.251256287097930908203125"/>
                <parameter index="12" name="Number of Channels" parameterValue="0.03125"/>
              </component>
            </slot>
          </effectsRack>

Report · Apr 03, 2025

I sort of figured this out on my own. I realized the SES files are text based code. And that things like effects are powered on and off for the clip effects. So using

powered="true"

powered="false"

Search and Replace I turned 480 powered on Reverb effects I did not want off. Unfortunately my way turns ALL clip effects off so if you had some you wanted on, it's still not a solution. There should be a way to ID just the culprit effects slots and turn those off. Say slot #1 in the Clip Effects rack position. But I'm back in biz.