Anyone using Davinci Resolve Free?

[Dabbler]

Have you managed to get your Reason audio to work inside Davinci 19.0.2?

I can't.

And the free version has no technical support from Davinci.

Looking for tips/advice that I haven't tried yet.

So far I uninstalled all the Realtek audio drivers.
This allowed me to set the input/output in Davinci to my MAudio USB interface.
But, I cannot get Davinci to show an input signal.
I can get output thru my Reason setup but no input, even though all the Davinci settings stick when set to the MAudio.
I believe Davinci is internally hardwired to use some or all of the Realtek system.
So I reinstalled the Realtek drivers. No luck.
Every YT video I watch makes it look like plug and play. But not for me.
Thanks.

[selig]

I have used Resolve for years, but don’t use much in the audio section.
Are you talking about running the Reason Rack Plugin, or something else?
I just tried the RRP and the zooming is totally off - when you open the plugin you see a tiny corner of the interface, nothing more. Everything else works, I can hear the instrument and play it via MIDI! Some plugins just crash Resolve (Kontakt 8) others work fine, so that puts Reason somewhere in the middle of the ‘field’…

As an alternative approach, I have full access to my audio hardware I/O in Resolve, and could probably route audio from Reason into Resolve that way. But then I wouldn’t have tempo sync…but inside Resolve I don’t have MIDI tracks, so there is no ‘perfect solution’ yet IMO…

[Dabbler]

Hey Selig. I’m simply trying to record audio with Davinci. Like a music track played live over the audio of the video clip.
I’m only using Davinci. I make a new audio track. Set the input. Patch it. But Davinci isn’t connecting. I’m doing this all in the Fairlight page.

[selig]

Hey Selig. I’m simply trying to record audio with Davinci. Like a music track played live over the audio of the video clip.
I’m only using Davinci. I make a new audio track. Set the input. Patch it. But Davinci isn’t connecting. I’m doing this all in the Fairlight page.

That’s weird, you’re describing the process I saw just now. Create track, assign input, put track in ‘record’ - are you seeing levels at all? You should be if following the previous steps…

[Dabbler]

Hey Selig. I’m simply trying to record audio with Davinci. Like a music track played live over the audio of the video clip.
I’m only using Davinci. I make a new audio track. Set the input. Patch it. But Davinci isn’t connecting. I’m doing this all in the Fairlight page.

That’s weird, you’re describing the process I saw just now. Create track, assign input, put track in ‘record’ - are you seeing levels at all? You should be if following the previous steps…

As usual - user error.
On the Fairlight page I had to set the destination to "track input".
I'm getting sound in now but with a horrible delay.
Now I'll chase this issue.
Thanks for responding Selig.

[Dabbler]

I finally got something to work.

I enabled all the Realtek & Waves services.

In Davinci the sample rate stays at 48K, where before something was changing it to 44.1K. Or vice versa.

I can get audio IN thru my USB and I can hear audio thru the headphone jack on the back of the PC.

But if I change the output to my USB, it plays but is terribly glitchy.

And if I change anything audio related while the Fairlight page is open then the playback doesn't come thru and the play head hardly moves.

I did hear from Blackmagic Support:

Hi,

I was able to get a small bit of information from a specialist, however, since this is the free version they are wanting this to be directed to our Forums where the developers can address the behavior.

He did say that he could see the M-Audio interface being detected by Resolve and suspects it to be a setting within Windows System Audio. Again, directing this to the forums since it is the free version.

Jen Winslow (She/Her)
Blackmagic Design Support Technician

Woop.

[Dabbler]

UPDATE.
I contacted RS because a Balance driver appeared in my system's sound microphone settings when DaVinci was running.
They said to delete any AISO registry keys associated with the Balance.
There were none.

Watched a YT vid about DaVinci wherein the subject was my exact issue, horribly distorted audio recorded directly into DaVinci .
The fix?
Set the DaVinci Preferences / Record Buffer Size to anything except 0 (which of course is where I had mine set).
Did so and no change.
But then, while DaVinci was open, I opened the PC system sound settings, clicked on sound and the microphone icon in the system tray became static (the annoying clicking stopped too.)
Then in DaVinci I was able to record and play back clean audio - halleluiah.
That was yesterday.
Today, I had to basically repeat all that.

• Open DaVinci.
  Reset the Record Buffer
  Open Windows Sound settings

Yeah just open Windows Sound settings - change nothing - just Windows Sound settings.

The folks at Blackmagic, who make DaVinci, should seek out the folks at Reason Studios - RS sound is smooth.

[PhillipOrdonez]

I don’t think a video editing software is made for recording into, no? Amazing that you can, but expecting the same experience as a daw? ‍♂️

I love davinci resolve but I use it for what it’s made for: video editing

[Dabbler]

I don’t think a video editing software is made for recording into, no? Amazing that you can, but expecting the same experience as a daw? ‍♂️

I love davinci resolve but I use it for what it’s made for: video editing

You are correct daVinci is primarily a video editing app. But it has a quite extensive built-in audio DAW. their claim is it can handle 2000 audio tracks. Of course something like that would be for major motion picture processing on some kind of futuristic quantum computer lol.
Now that I know how to get audio into it I will explore its compression and limiting features as well as other things like echo delay and reverb. Yes of course I could do all this audio stuff with reason but I’m just a hardheaded old man with nothing better to do.

[PhillipOrdonez]

Yes it can do lots of audio tasks, certainly, but it’s made for working on audio recordings that were already recorded before bringing them into the program

The way I work though, after editing in resolve, I’m always rendering the audio to work on a more familiar (to me) post production environment (including reason )and then bringing the audio back in to render the final video.

[selig]

Yes it can do lots of audio tasks, certainly, but it’s made for working on audio recordings that were already recorded before bringing them into the program

The way I work though, after editing in resolve, I’m always rendering the audio to work on a more familiar (to me) post production environment (including reason )and then bringing the audio back in to render the final video.

Some folks deal with audio externally, some internally in Resolve.
But it's 100% made to record audio, plenty of support documents on how to do it. Here's what I'm talking about (just to be sure we're on the same page here), a video tutorial from BM on recording with the Fairlight page (from 2 years ago):

[PhillipOrdonez]

That’s what happens when you integrate a daw into a video editor. Frankenstein’s monster!

[Dabbler]

Yes it can do lots of audio tasks, certainly, but it’s made for working on audio recordings that were already recorded before bringing them into the program

The way I work though, after editing in resolve, I’m always rendering the audio to work on a more familiar (to me) post production environment (including reason )and then bringing the audio back in to render the final video.

Some folks deal with audio externally, some internally in Resolve.
But it's 100% made to record audio, plenty of support documents on how to do it. Here's what I'm talking about (just to be sure we're on the same page here), a video tutorial from BM on recording with the Fairlight page (from 2 years ago):

Sweet. Thanks.

[selig]

That’s what happens when you integrate a daw into a video editor. Frankenstein’s monster!

Same if you integrate a video editor into a DAW - be careful what you wish for…

[PhillipOrdonez]

That’s what happens when you integrate a daw into a video editor. Frankenstein’s monster!

Same if you integrate a video editor into a DAW - be careful what you wish for…

Haha! Touché!

[tomusurp]

That’s what happens when you integrate a daw into a video editor. Frankenstein’s monster!

Same if you integrate a video editor into a DAW - be careful what you wish for…

Actually FL studio has a built-in plugin called ZGameEditor. It's a visualizer maker and type of video editor, but not in the sense that you cut video in a timeline and put in transitions. But you can import your own media and add all kinds of visualizer effects to it or use their presets. It's actually great because what I do is animate my song cover via AI and then use the ZGame plugin to put an audio visualizer effect over it

[Dabbler]

Same if you integrate a video editor into a DAW - be careful what you wish for…

Actually FL studio has a built-in plugin called ZGameEditor. It's a visualizer maker and type of video editor, but not in the sense that you cut video in a timeline and put in transitions. But you can import your own media and add all kinds of visualizer effects to it or use their presets. It's actually great because what I do is animate my song cover via AI and then use the ZGame plugin to put an audio visualizer effect over it

Yea. Animation is what came to mind.
And it’s nice to be able to have an integrated app for workflow.

[Dionysus]

In Davinci the sample rate stays at 48K, where before something was changing it to 44.1K. Or vice versa.

Hello, did you come to a solution ? I was having many problems with DaVinci, and other DAWS where the computer would decide to change to bit rates at random. Since getting a NEW COMPUTER one year ago, I am still having the same problems. Something's forcing sample rate changes on some applications, and I've spent hours very systematically troubleshooting with no success.

Do you have an old Audio Interface ? Mine is 12 years old, and not supported by drivers. Since the issue is happening on both old and new PC my conclusion is that the problem is most likely the interface.

A bit disappointing really, because I wanted to start making some videos when I have new computer a year ago.

When I get the motivation I think I will have to hook up the computer's internal audio (I left it disconnected since I use an interface) and see if that resolves the problem. This isn't ideal though because then I can't plug instruments in.

[Dabbler]

Dionysus. No.
It’s frustrating.
I’m using an M-Audio Duo USB interface.
The sample rate change still occurs.
I haven’t figured out why.
This morning, after working on a video for hours yesterday, Davinci hung up on loading a project.
I restart the PC and it loaded.
it’s mysterious.

[Dabbler]

Just now I started Davinci while my M-Audio Duo Driver Control Panel was open.
The Duo is set to 44.1khz.
Starting Davinci, immediately caused the Duo to start switching from 41.1 to 48Khz with only the Davinci splash screen open.
While the Davinci splash screen is open, Davinci cycles thru the Fairlight audio module.
Is this related?
Who knows.

[Carly(Poohbear)]

Just now I started Davinci while my M-Audio Duo Driver Control Panel was open.
The Duo is set to 44.1khz.
Starting Davinci, immediately caused the Duo to start switching from 41.1 to 48Khz with only the Davinci splash screen open.
While the Davinci splash screen is open, Davinci cycles thru the Fairlight audio module.
Is this related?
Who knows.

I just started to use Davinci and thought I would try this, got it working 2 different ways in Windows.

1) Using ASIO Link Pro in Reason and setting Davinci to use the Mix 01 (ASIOVARPRO driver)
2) Set my Audio interface to use a loopback (some drivers call it stereo mix or what you hear etc) Reason uses that and you set Davinci to record from it.

The one thing that caught me out for about 10 minutes is you have to arm the track (R) as I thought it would at least show even if I was not recording, that was not case..

[Dabbler]

Hey Carly(Poohbear) -

Are you recording into Davinci from Reason?

Thanks.

[Carly(Poohbear)]

Hey Carly(Poohbear) -

Are you recording into Davinci from Reason?

Thanks.

Yes, using either of the methods I described works for me.

[Dabbler]

Hey Carly(Poohbear) -

Are you recording into Davinci from Reason?

Thanks.

Yes, using either of the methods I described works for me.

Hmm, well surfing about ASIO link pro it looks like a routing plan that I may not enjoy.

I've been able to get Davinci to record audio even though it's not ideal getting there.

Thanks for the tip.
I doubt I'd have ever stumbled on that one.