Enveloping Visualizes/Displays Incorrectly on Timeline

With the most recent update (3.6.1), the tracks I’ve applied enveloping to all show up on my timeline at full volume. When played, the volume of tracks still changes correctly, but the wave form remains unchanged, reducing properly aligning tracks as they fade in and out to guesswork once no longer using the envelope tool. To illustrate, here’s a flat tone that I’ve enveloped:

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The placement of the control point on the right should be changing the shape of this waveform, but it remains the same. Only moving whatever control point is leftmost on a clip does anything.

To make things worse, once you return to a regular selection tool to move clips around, not even control points are visible. This means that I can’t place clips to coincide with audio getting louder or quieter without guesswork.
To reiterate, the audio does still get quieter, but none of it is properly reflected in the waveform.

Anyone know how to fix this? Is there some new visualization/interface option that got turned on with the update that’s causing this and I can turn off?

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I have since found instances where new clips placed in brand new files properly display enveloping but this is not uniform. Cannot find any pattern as of yet; I originally thought this issue was only applying to projects prior to my update, which would at least make sense.

Audio put in an entirely new file properly visualizes when new envelopes are applied–but strangely, all clips imported and recorded pre-3.6 do not, even when copied and pasted into a brand new file. The waveform still shows up unaltered, and further alteration with the envelope tool does nothing, right next to a new clip whose enveloping shows up just fine.

Strangely, however, I’ve discovered that I can copy and paste two separate segments of the same clip into a new project, and randomly one will properly envelope and the other won’t.

Possibly this known and logged bug:

Peter

Thanks for flagging this. We’re experiencing the same issue on some clips, and not on others, exactly as described in this thread. Here is a screen recording to show what happens.

Thanks, this makes sense to me. Sadly I’m just going to have to wait for a patch. On at least one of my projects, going back to 3.5 isn’t an option. I recorded about 40 minutes of material right after updating like a fool and Audacity disallows you from editing “new” projects on “old” software.

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