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Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: UncleBuck on March 06, 2013,
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Has anybody had this pop up after creating a new sequence in LOR. Once I set up the sequence the Beat Wizard pop up with this error "Can't init Conversion".
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Yep! Your music is probably at the wrong bitrate and S3 can't convert it over to use the beat wizard. You'll most likely get the same error if you try to display the waveform at the top of the grid.
You can use "Audacity" http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) (free) to export your music to 128 kbs constant bit rate. You can find the details here:
http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/Audacity_Lame_128Kbps.pdf (http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/Audacity_Lame_128Kbps.pdf)
Jamie
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Got it working!!
Thanks Jamie
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I got the beat the wizard working but I have another problem with Audacity. This last year I had problems with volume of the different songs in my show. I wanted to fix this using Audacity but when hit play the song plays but there is no sound. When I go into effects to use "Amplify" I'm unable to use any of the effects in the drop down. What have I done wrong? <fp.
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Morning!
First, I'm glad you got the wave forms/Beat wiz working in S3. The beat wiz works well in songs with a constant tempo, but unfortunately most of the songs I use DON'T have a constant tempo... so I use the wave form a lot (and the tap wiz).
Next, I'm not an Audacity wiz by ANY s-t-r-e-c-h of the the imagination. Without knowing more about your system and your setup I'd have a hard time hazarding a guess. I did find something in Audacity's Wiki about sound dropping out when trying to record and using Win 7 listed here:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_playback.html#muted (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_playback.html#muted)
I'd suggest looking through their wiki and seeing if you can find anything pertaining to your setup and your issue. Failing that, you can pose the question on their forum http://forum.audacityteam.org/ (http://forum.audacityteam.org/). Doing a search in their forum =46]http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.php?keywords=No+Sound&fid[0]=46 (http://forum.audacityteam.org/search.php?keywords=No+Sound&fid[0) it appears that there are others who have had issues in the past. I've been fortunate enough to have things work on my Win 7 and Vista machines, so I haven't had to do much digging yet. Sorry.
Hope you get your issue resolved soon, and drop me a PM when you find out what it is if you would be so kind so that I can add it to my "Audacity and S3" knowledge base. ;D
Jamie
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I used to have a sound utility (lost in a Windows upgrade :( ) that would adjust the volume/gain in your MP3s to match a reference song you provided. It was very quick and easy. That was at least 2 years ago. It is probably even better now.
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You can try MP3Gain, it can set the audio level of all files in a directory at one time or just do individual files.
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
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Dennis, that's the program. Time to reinstall.
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In audacity under preferences-import/export there is a place to select normalize that will set the volume of all songs to the same level.