A word of caution with sample conversion

mosthigh · 2014-07-14T17:40:58.000Z

Make sure you check your samples for fidelity after converting and BEFORE uploading to the AR. You won’t lose hours of your day like I did.

Also, don’t use the free Switch converter available online. It added a high end ringing sound to the converted wavs. I thought I was going nuts, checking this and that, thinking it was the AR, before I realized it was the conversion program. I had to unload every sample I uploaded and do it over.

Ended up converting files one by one in Wavelab Elements.

the_dreammer · 2014-07-14T17:52:46.000Z

may I b curious, why didnt you just use C6 to upload your samples?

mosthigh · 2014-07-14T18:22:36.000Z

I did use C6 to do the actual sample transfer but I don’t trust it for file conversion. I had some stereo samples that needed to be flattened to mono, as well as the conversion to 24/48 for all wavs.

the_dreammer · 2014-07-14T19:21:54.000Z

ah like that… I just do those things straight from my daw… and drop them in c6.
works very wel…

But I do agree… in the case of filling your machinedrum
its easier to work with 16bit mono files… so atleast i know when my total collection of samples is bigger then 2.5mb before i start

the combi, reaper + audacity + renoise = enough audiotools for me.

R7 · 2014-07-14T20:46:05.000Z

Some programs do sample rate conversion better than others. Some leave some pretty bad artifacts in the audio.

http://src.infinitewave.ca/ has a list of comparisons. Audacity is good, especially because it’s free but it looks like the best sound quality wise are Adobe Audition and Izotope SRC which is in products like Sound Forge Pro and Sample Manager.

amiga303 · 2014-07-14T22:43:31.000Z

""the_dreammer"":

ah like that… I just do those things straight from my daw… and drop them in c6.
works very wel…

But I do agree… in the case of filling your machinedrum
its easier to work with 16bit mono files… so atleast i know when my total collection of samples is bigger then 2.5mb before i start

the combi, reaper + audacity + renoise = enough audiotools for me.

why 2.5mb?

the_dreammer · 2014-07-14T22:50:43.000Z

""amiga303"":

why 2.5mb?

Because, i really think I cannot put more into my machinedrum, as that is its memory-limit…
which is fine. I just want some synthie sounds to bleep around… it also pays off to speedup the sample.
u can slow them down on the machinedrum again… save memory-space… heh almost like the fun people had 20years ago.

But yeah, good reason for me to think about an AR… so i can just load up bigger samples and have difrent type-o-fun…

tonight · 2014-07-15T00:26:35.000Z

maybe you were as your board name,

where even doing semi technical stuff

mistakes are easy to make?

Dapifer · 2014-07-15T06:00:41.000Z

Is there an issue with the conversion done with C6 that I’m not aware of?

mosthigh · 2014-07-15T20:39:41.000Z

""tonight"":

maybe you were as your board name,

where even doing semi technical stuff

mistakes are easy to make?

Indeed, I was.
Wasn’t really a mistake, but rather an oversight. I checked several samples to make sure they sounded alright but didn’t check all of them. I noticed after import that some samples had high end ringing. Curiously, the ones with most low end freq. I thought it was AR, then I thought it was C6, then I realized it was the conversion program.
Just a word of caution, friends.