In the attached image - the top track is a bunch of edited VO segments from a longer recording which have a few semitone, non time corrected pitch shift applied
I then duplicated this track and applied a time-corrected 12-semitone pitch shift to the segments within it.
As you can see from the waveforms, it’s horribly, horribly broken. The segments now dont match to the segments above in terms of where they are in the recording.
Also it took AGES to complete processing. A dialogue within the processing window said it had 180 segments to process (there were 16) . And it’s still broken.
Ok it seems I may have gotten to the root of the problem.
If you apply an offline process to a long, single audio object - then chop that object into a bunch of small objects, applying the same time of process to the subsequent files will totally break them - and undoing the action will likely fail, and possibly even crash cubase making you lose a bunch of work.
This is what annoys me
in the menu “audio” you have “direct offline processing F7” and the old “Processes” however BOTH open the “direct offline processing” interface. This is redundant, 1 entry is enough?
for shits and giggles choose “normalize” from the “processes” menu, click apply waveform goes up. Now choose “discard” nothing happens, you have to either right click and delete the event on the left hand side from the context menu, or press crtl +z. What’s the function of “discard” then?!?
Discard is for when you’re previewing changes using the Audition button (realtime preview). Pressing it restores the settings to the last applied settings.
The F7 menu is basically the offline process history for that clip. The processes menu allows for old mouse-based workflows to work more or less the same as before, and was probably kept to ease the transition from the old system to DOP for some people.
Well, I have just requested a refund on my 9.5 upgrade - people might say that as its a digital download you have no rights to refund, but the EU laws regarding consumer protection appear to disagree. Lets see how I get on. I’ll be happy to repurchase once it’s fixed, but currently for me the 9.5 upgrade is not ‘Fit For Purpose’.
Yep, they need to fix this DOP, hopefully very soon.
Or make it removable, right now it is completely useless anyway.
I have several issues using it, I can understand there can be issues in a new release, and most normally gets fixed in the first patch. But this feels like it is still in Alpha stage, a little worried.
Customer story: let’s overhaul a straightforward menu, WITHOUT ANY CONPLAINTS SINCE IT’S EXISTANCE and turn it into something as unintuitive and useless as possible
Eh, what? So far it sounds like your whole problem with DOP is that you simply aren’t making any effort to get your head around it.
You’re not resetting the preview, you’re resetting the changes you made without hitting apply. Hitting Audition lets you hear the changes you’re making in real time, without having to apply. (this is the same as the old preview button…)