Matt, identified this issue above:

Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
... muting the drums before the end is standard practice for me after enduring the clunk problem for so long. All of my songs have this and I would never have heard this problem.


What you are reporting is "the clunk problem". This has been a long running bug which continues to raise it head at times.


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