I have a transition marker set up to go back to the start marker. Once the play head hits the transition marker, the music stops, four counts of nothing, then goes back to the starts but there is no sound.
The same goes for if I am using a looping and transition region over the same bars of notes. If I try to tranaition out of a looped region by increasing a parameter, the music stops.
What am I missing?
It sounds like you might have an unwanted transition timeline in your event. Is there a tiny black circle on the transition marker? If so, that marker has a “transition timeline,” an extra timeline that the playback position passes through on its way from the transition marker to the destination marker instead of just jumping to its destination instantly.
You can view the contents of a transition timeline by double-clicking on the transition marker to open it; and you can remove an unwanted transition timeline by right-clicking on the marker and selecting “Remove transition timeline” from the context menu. This won’t remove the transition, just the transition timeline.