My latest song has a saturator plugin on the master bus (which, by the way, is the only plugin on the master bus). Unfortunately, when I try to export it, what I end up exporting is a very loud bang followed by the rest of the song but at less than half of it's normal volume. This doesn't occur if I bypass the saturator.
Furthermore, whenever this happens, wherever I have the gain setting, whether +5dB or -2dB, becomes the new -0dB, and goes up or down from there. Here is an example.
I have tried creating a mixing bus, routing everything there, and then routing the mixing bus to the master, but that didn't work either. It did, however, show me that the mixing bus was still receiving signals at full volume, so whatever's happening is being caused by the plugin itself.
Furthermore, whenever this happens, wherever I have the gain setting, whether +5dB or -2dB, becomes the new -0dB, and goes up or down from there. Here is an example.
I have tried creating a mixing bus, routing everything there, and then routing the mixing bus to the master, but that didn't work either. It did, however, show me that the mixing bus was still receiving signals at full volume, so whatever's happening is being caused by the plugin itself.