I did what you said and it got even more interesting.

I looked at the number of events. It was 103. I flatlined it to 1. Went out to bar 22 where the timing issues started. Selected the audio, cut it on pasted it so it was dead on the 2. That change held. Then to experiment, I went forward 3 measures. Did the same cut and paste. When that was done I went backward 2 measures, cut and pasted those two, and when I got back to the one I went ahead to, it was off again. Everything I was doing in front of every measure was resulting in an exponential/cumulative change. AT that point, just to test, I went back and started consolidating after every change. It still pushed everything back when I did a cut and paste. So I tried to select, cut, and when I pasted I unchecked the "events" tick box, and then there was nothing to paste, so paste did nothing. Turned that tick box back on again and pasted. I ended up consolidating after every paste, going to the next measure, cutting and pasting, consolidating, going to the next measure, cutting and pasting.....

(EDIT 10 minutes later: And I just dumped to WAV, converted to MP3 at both 128 and 320, and all 3 of those files now have the parts lock into sync. Amazing.)

Then I did something else interesting. I looked at the vocoder and human BGV tracks. With many "events", nothing ever got out of time. I did gain changes up and down, added reverb.... never did it get out of time and there were like 54 events on the vocoder tracks.

So this brings up the question, is it good practice to consolidate EVERY track EVERY song before saving?

PS - I never even knew that was there!

Last edited by eddie1261; 10/06/12 04:30 PM.