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0009343ardourbugspublic2023-05-25 16:31
Reporterunfa Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformMicrosoftOSWindowsOS Version10
Product Version7.4 
Summary0009343: Export silence trim applies unwanted noise gating
DescriptionNoise trimming results in exports being noise-gated, poking holes in the audio.
This can be seen as black bars on the export analysis spectrogram.

Steps To ReproduceI'm attaching a test project.

Open it and export the session with silence trimming enabled.
You should see a striped spectrogram - with chunks of the audio missing.

Now disabled silence trimming and try again - the black bars will be gone.
Tagsaudio, export, silence, Trim

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unfa

2023-05-22 17:34

reporter   ~0027670

Minimal reproduction project.

unfa

2023-05-22 17:34

reporter   ~0027671

I've also reported this to Paul on Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/344542072855986178/727813815454138408/1110258129410723850

x42

2023-05-23 00:22

administrator   ~0027673

Can you elaborate which settings you use to export?

I have just tested this and cannot reproduces this
silence-trim-spektrum.png (262,225 bytes)
silence-trim-settings.png (90,596 bytes)   
silence-trim-settings.png (90,596 bytes)   

unfa

2023-05-23 11:22

reporter   ~0027675

The only difference I see is that I selected Shaped Noise dither, and you have no dither selected here. I'll try with no dither on my side.
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Ardour_LoVseLzisO.png (50,036 bytes)   

unfa

2023-05-23 11:27

reporter   ~0027676

I've tested with no dithering and I have the same (gated) result. Could you test on Windows?
Maybe this is caused by some dependency misbehaving on Windows, while working as expected on Linux?

I could provide you with remote access to my Windows machine (via RustDesk) for debugging, if that'd be useful.

unfa

2023-05-23 11:36

reporter   ~0027677

Here's an export from official 7.4.2.117 Windows 64-bit build with NO dithering:
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Ardour_vxgJwWUXB7.png (84,980 bytes)   
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unfa

2023-05-23 11:37

reporter   ~0027678

*7.4.117 (I typed some nonsense version number above, sorry)

x42

2023-05-25 16:02

administrator   ~0027682

I just tested this on Windows 11 (at Harrison), and cannot reproduce this there either.
I also cannot see how silence trim would cut out something in the middle. Can you double-check that disabling that option exports correctly?

BTW, have you edited %localappdata%\Ardour7\config and changed
 Option name="export-silence-threshold" value="-90"

x42

2023-05-25 16:31

administrator   ~0027683

While the backend should not matter, the data track -> master is still passed via the backend.
I have checked with both Dummy, and Portaudio/ASIO to be certain.
I've also re-imported the exported file and verified the loudness (Region > Loudness Analysis) and checked level with the "internal edit tool" to be within -67 and -57 dBFS.

This is mysterious..

Could you try with a different user (new preferences)?

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-05-22 17:27 unfa New Issue
2023-05-22 17:27 unfa Tag Attached: audio
2023-05-22 17:27 unfa Tag Attached: export
2023-05-22 17:27 unfa Tag Attached: silence
2023-05-22 17:27 unfa Tag Attached: Trim
2023-05-22 17:34 unfa Note Added: 0027670
2023-05-22 17:34 unfa File Added: Silence trim gating repro_2023-05-22_191755.ardour-session-archive
2023-05-22 17:34 unfa Note Added: 0027671
2023-05-23 00:22 x42 Note Added: 0027673
2023-05-23 00:22 x42 File Added: silence-trim-spektrum.png
2023-05-23 00:22 x42 File Added: silence-trim-settings.png
2023-05-23 11:22 unfa Note Added: 0027675
2023-05-23 11:22 unfa File Added: Ardour_LoVseLzisO.png
2023-05-23 11:27 unfa Note Added: 0027676
2023-05-23 11:36 unfa Note Added: 0027677
2023-05-23 11:36 unfa File Added: Ardour_kK28HfwiZk.png
2023-05-23 11:36 unfa File Added: Ardour_lu4cFHLfBy.png
2023-05-23 11:36 unfa File Added: Ardour_vxgJwWUXB7.png
2023-05-23 11:37 unfa Note Added: 0027678
2023-05-25 16:02 x42 Note Added: 0027682
2023-05-25 16:31 x42 Note Added: 0027683