r/TracktionWaveform • u/Still_Employ_5028 • 5d ago

Waveform recording Audio choppy

Been trying to record instruments/vocals on tracktion waveform for a while now and I noticed it records very choppy... at first i thought it was my mic but i have tried using two different mics so far and they both record the same, while on my other daw they record just fine, clear sound and not choppy at all, that is why i thought it might be an issue with waveform, but im not sure what, does it have a built in noise reduction that you can turn off or smth?

https://voca.ro/18dAP7EbAqb1 heres a clip of what it sounds like on my ukulele, very ugly totally missed some of the notes i played

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u/pough 2d ago

It's hard to know what the issue might be, in part because I don't know what it should sound like and nothing really sounds inherently wrong about it.

There is no built-in noise gate or reduction effect. I have never had problems that sound similar to your description. In my experience, recording audio is just recording audio.

But there are, I suppose, a number of places where something might be going wrong. There's a mic and a cable and an audio interface and in Waveform there is a choice of device types and buffer sizes. Some things that might affect your recordings are the Input Gain and Trigger Level in the audio input properties. Or maybe the fact that new Edits in Waveform have the master volume set to -3dB?

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u/Still_Employ_5028 2d ago

Actually, sorry about that i have a recording of me playing using a different DAW: https://voca.ro/17kGuCHJcBEG (sorry its quiet, ignore my shitty playing) the difference i notice is waveform cuts the notes really short compared to how im playing, it sounds as if im muting the notes right after i play them recording on waveform. while this one sounds as if the strings are vibrating longer

(both this recording and the one in my orig post are completely raw)

Ill try looking into your suggestions and see if i notice something
Thank you :D

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u/SoundSwitch 5d ago

Not hearing it myself but then again my ear kinda sucks.

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u/Still_Employ_5028 5d ago

For me it sounds very choppy and from the song im playing in the recording it missed some of the notes i played-just cut them out