Normalizing Issue

brian-hill wrote on 1/27/2018, 3:26 PM

If there is a way to fix this, I would love some help. I'm creating a song, obviously, and I will periodically export the project to hear how it sounds outside of the program. Well every time I export it, the volume settings I've placed in the song don't carry over. All my loud parts are muffled and my quieter parts are louder. This is typically due to the program Normalizing the song during export but I have unchecked the "normalize" box and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I have exported the song in .wav and .mp3 and it makes no difference. I have checked the Normalize box and unchecked it and compared both versions of the export and they are identical. Is there something I'm missing?

Thank you to anyone who can help me.

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brian-hill wrote on 1/28/2018, 3:14 PM

Solved my issue. Magix Music Maker keeps doing something to my audio driver and making the sound on my computer have poor quality. Not sure why. But I reinstalled my sound driver and the exported file sounds fine.

johnebaker wrote on 1/29/2018, 4:00 AM

. . . . Magix Music Maker keeps doing something to my audio driver . . . .

This is very unlikely, it is most probable that a Windows update has reverted the audio driver to a Microsoft version. I have had a similar issue with video drivers and Windows updates.

. . . . . I reinstalled my sound driver . . . .

Was this the manufacturers driver?

IMHO you need to keep an eye on this and hope Windows does not replace them again.

HTH

John EB

brian-hill wrote on 2/8/2018, 1:17 AM

After hours of deliberation and hopelessness, I cannot really confirm what is happening, but I have concluded my computer is doing something strange. When I export my music (doesn't matter if it's a .wav or .mp3) it sounds awful and normalized when I playback the song on MY specific computer. But if I upload the song to, let's say, Google Drive and listen to it from my phone, the song sounds just fine. Or if I send the song to my wife's computer (a Mac) the song plays just fine. But no matter what I do on my own computer, the file will not play as it should. It's as if my computer doesn't know how to read the file properly (OR SOMETHING). Again, I honestly have no idea at this point why my computer is doing this, but I give up. I'll just keep doing what I do.

emmrecs wrote on 2/8/2018, 4:23 AM

@brian-hill

If it is only your computer which is causing these playback problems I suggest you take a very close look at your Windows Sound settings. In the SysTray area of your computer (bottom right hand corner) if you have a speaker icon, right-click on it and select "Playback devices". On the screen that opens, make sure your playback device is highlighted and select the "Properties" button. This will open a screen with a series of tabs; check that all of them, especially "Spatial Sound", are what you would expect them to be. Also remember that if you have any "Windows Sounds" activated (check the "Sounds" tab on the first screen you opened) any settings you choose elsewhere can be over-ridden by Windows notifications etc. (Some Windows sounds have a sampling frequency of 8kHz, which can make "music" sound awful!)

HTH

Jeff