Why is a track silent when it is not muted?

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#1

Hello, so a track I made is not producing sound. The routing is fine, it is not muted, and my volume is up. When I make a copy of the track sound does come out, however if I save the session and reopen the copy stops producing sound as well. I have another track but no issues with that one.

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#2

I think I did have that too, recently.
Did not pay too much attention 'cause I was able to work around somehow, also don’t remember how.
It might have been a drum midi track. The session possibly had been created with an older version.
(I know that’s not much useful info …)

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#3
  • Does the meter move on that track when you play?
  • Is the track’s output connected to the master-bus?
  • Have you perhaps set the track to explicily monitor "In"put (button on the mixer-strip)?
  • Maybe a plugin causing issues?

If none of the above, perhaps a screenshot of the editor and mixer showing that specific track can help, or sharing the .ardour session file would allow to investigate.

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#4

the output is connected and yes it does move when I hit play but not the green side of the uv. no plugin is causing it any it is not set to monitor input

also I should have mentioned that it stopped working after a crashed. if I can’t solve this issue and how to prevent it I will just recreate the track without duplicating the original track.

#5

So this is a MIDI track? We really need a lot more information to track this down.

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#6

what kind of information?

#7

Could it be you have a fluidsynth plugin in the track, but it did not load a soundfont correctly?
Had that one in the past as well. Midi is received, the yellow midi meter blinks, but without a soundfont, the output stays silent… It did happen when I loaded a session.

#8

I have solved me issue. I recreated the track and copied each plugin. it was the ACE expander. I am not sure why but when I first used it sound comes through but once I save & close session then reopen it no sound.

Update: I have not solved it
ok so after I took off the ACE expander it worked, but it didn’t worked after reopening the session. no sound till I deleted another plugin but that also doesn’t help me

#9

What happens if you start the session with ALL plugins disabled, check sound is coming out, close session and open again with plugins disabled ? You can do this from the command line in linux:

ardour9 -d session_name

#10

so uh no clue what happened but after I mess around with plugins it seem to fix itself. maybe it was the combination of plugins I used. also I am using Mac