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Subject:Advice.... Posted by: SkZ Date:3/2/2003 2:39:23 PM Hey all..... Need a little advice regardin VSTI's....I've nearly finished a track i've been working on and it incorperates about four vsti's....The vsti parts are still in midi but i want to bounce them down into wav..So what i'd like to know is ,should i bounce them down at 44.100hz or 48,000hz? taking into consideration i've got samples in there in loop format 44.100hz (will acid playback mixed sample rates?)I want to get the best quality i can initialy cause obviously im gonna effect the synth parts to suit the track,via eq/reverb ect! Tell me how you work regarding this matter? P.s. sound card M-AUDIOPHILE cheer's :)
Subject:RE: Advice.... Reply by: dkistner Date:3/2/2003 3:04:03 PM I'd bounce to 44,100 myself because that's the sampling rate for CDs and I don't have a Creative soundcard that's set to 48,000 (one of the reasons I dumped it in favor of an Echo Mia). If you've got a Creative soundcard then you should work at 48,000 until you're ready to mix the final mix to avoid using too much of your CPU's resources having it translate back and forth between the two sampling rates; but then mix it down to 44,100. Somebody else correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I'd do. And I don't know how Acid handles the dithering when sampling from 48,000 to 44,100...so I just dumped my Creative card.
Subject:RE: Advice.... Reply by: Iacobus Date:3/2/2003 8:33:14 PM ACID will playback different sample rates. The sample rate under the project's audio properties will determine the final rate. I believe ACID will convert on the fly, but your system's power will ultimately determine what you can get away with. I'm no engineer, but I believe that the higher the sample rate, the more accurate the digital waveform will be in comparison to its analog counterpart. HTH, Iacobus

Subject:Advice....

Posted by: SkZ

Date:3/2/2003 2:39:23 PM

Hey all..... Need a little advice regardin VSTI's....I've nearly finished a track i've been working on and it incorperates about four vsti's....The vsti parts are still in midi but i want to bounce them down into wav..So what i'd like to know is ,should i bounce them down at 44.100hz or 48,000hz? taking into consideration i've got samples in there in loop format 44.100hz (will acid playback mixed sample rates?)I want to get the best quality i can initialy cause obviously im gonna effect the synth parts to suit the track,via eq/reverb ect!

Tell me how you work regarding this matter?

P.s. sound card M-AUDIOPHILE

cheer's :)

Subject:RE: Advice....

Reply by: dkistner

Date:3/2/2003 3:04:03 PM

I'd bounce to 44,100 myself because that's the sampling rate for CDs and I don't have a Creative soundcard that's set to 48,000 (one of the reasons I dumped it in favor of an Echo Mia). If you've got a Creative soundcard then you should work at 48,000 until you're ready to mix the final mix to avoid using too much of your CPU's resources having it translate back and forth between the two sampling rates; but then mix it down to 44,100. Somebody else correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I'd do. And I don't know how Acid handles the dithering when sampling from 48,000 to 44,100...so I just dumped my Creative card.

Subject:RE: Advice....

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:3/2/2003 8:33:14 PM

ACID will playback different sample rates. The sample rate under the project's audio properties will determine the final rate. I believe ACID will convert on the fly, but your system's power will ultimately determine what you can get away with.

I'm no engineer, but I believe that the higher the sample rate, the more accurate the digital waveform will be in comparison to its analog counterpart.

HTH,
Iacobus