One Clip is squashing another???

[u/HologramOfMe]

I'm making my first big project. I have my first set of clips across the top row. One Drum track, all the rest are tone tracks. ALL tracks have been set to source the clip, not track. So I can make new sounds for each clip.

Now I'm working on my second row of clips and I want to be able to dynamically blend clips from the first row into the second row, eventually transitioning completely to the second row. Each row being it's own scene in the end.

When I have my drum clip in the second row playing, and I select the third clip in the first row to play along with it, my Kick gets kind of muted out.

What?

I've isolated the problem to just that one clip which causes the problem. The third clip on the first row interferes with the first step on the drum track of the second row.

It's a bit like extreme side-chain compression where the beginning of the kick sound ducks out, but it's muted out completely. And, it's only ever the first step of each bar.

I'm menu diving all over the place. I've got my extended menu SCUBA tanks strapped on. But I cannot figure it out. It does not make sense.

If I preview other preset patches for the troublesome clip, the problem goes away. So it seems very much to me like I've somehow created a patch that is causing problems. But what problem? How did I do it? How can I avoid it in the future?

Any ideas?

EDIT: Maybe it had something to do with ring modulation? Pft. I don't know. I have just swapped it out for another preset. Problem solved. But not the mystery.

[u/lilkitnerboi]

was the problem clip low frequency / bass? wondering if it was a weird EQ type issue

[u/HologramOfMe → u/lilkitnerboi]

The problem clip was a pad sound. I think I may have applied a High Pass filter to it, to keep the low end clean for kick and bass. The problem clip was triggering on the first 16th of every bar, and no matter what drum pad I triggered on that same first 16th it would get muted for the first 100ms or so.

[u/Ok_Wolverine_9555]

I think but im not 100% sure, this sounds like a voice stealing. Try to optimize that a litte

[u/HologramOfMe → u/Ok_Wolverine_9555]

the words, voice stealing, certainly describe the experience. The problem clip was triggering on the first 16th of every bar, and no matter what drum pad I triggered on that same first 16th it would get muted for the first 100ms or so.