Duplicated audio does not sound the same #83997
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Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 456.38
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a5a302bd18Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)
Short description of error
Duplicating the same audio strip several times in a timeline, gives a different sound.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Rendering the audio only (menu Render > Render audio) and decreasing the accuracy will improve the audio.
test-audio.blend
Added subscriber: @HUSCH
Added subscriber: @rjg
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs User Info'
I've tested this only Linux and can't hear any different between the duplicated strips. That the waveform of the export to mp4 may not look exactly like the one from the original .wav file can be due to lossy encoding. Could you please provide a file with the audio duplicated where the strips sound differently? How often did you have to duplicate the audio strip until the issue occurred?
The problem could be the same as #83991.
I included the original sound-file (bounce.wav), a blend-file with the sound-strip + 2x duplicated. You can hear the difference between the swooshes (but not very clearly). I included also the wave-form of the render (of the three (identical?) soundstrips. You can clearly see that the waveform of all three has small differences. After rendering the audio only, in which case you can set the accuracy (low value = high accuracy), the differences disappear. I included also the Audacity-profile of this audio-only output..
Blendfile
test-audio1.blend1
Audacity profile of rendered (MP4) output
Audacity profile of render audio (AC) output
Sound
Bounce.wav
Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Needs Triage'
Thank you for the files, we will investigate.
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Confirmed'
After the export the audio is significantly different, before the export they all sound the same to me, but that might just be my ears not picking up subtle differences.
Yes, you're right. Before the export they sound indeed the same. Perhaps I wanted to hear the difference because I knew about the profiles. So, I did the test and recorded the sound (with volume set to 5) with a microphone. The waveform looks identical in Audacity. So, it's a problem of the render (to video). The render audio can do it right, if accuracy is set low.
Added subscribers: @neXyon, @tintwotin
It could be related to the fixed value of AUD_DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE. https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/audaspace/config/Audaspace.h.in$103
It seems to be the reading-buffer-size which is set too high and cause inaccuracy. Maybe this value should be lowered or exposed so users can set this value manually?
@neXyon Maybe you could have a look at this?
This issue was referenced by
83ad35cb9cThat one was a bit harder to find. Running down the wrong rabbit hole, I also found another inaccuracy! :D
@tintwotin While the behavior depends on the size of the mixdown buffer, this is not the precise cause for the bug. During audio rendering, users can actually choose the value manually.
Changed status from 'Confirmed' to: 'Resolved'