Hey ya’ll!
So I’ve been learning the Octatrack (not as frustrating as I thought it would be thanks to those splendid Cuckoo videos!) and I think i’m really starting to get a hold of the live sampling and editing capabilities.
However, I’m working on a new project and literally everything I sample has its pitch or speed or something changed. Basically it does not sound like the Ableton sound I recorded into it using the live, sort of dirty, sampling technique.
please help. thank you!
Its probably time stretching it, turn timestretch off on the sample editors last page
Either that or you’re exporting at a sampling rate the OT doesn’t support. Are all your samples 44.1kHz? The OT will open an sample rate but it will always play back at 44.1 so if your source files were saved at a different rate they’ll play back at the wrong speed and pitch.
It’s probably timestretch, though.
didnt even think of that, ive had time stretching issues with different sample rates before. I always stick to 44.1 16bit now
It’s almost certainly this, even if you haven’t changed the pitch of the sample, having timestretch on really muddies the sound.
I have many samples in 48k but everything I’ve found so far changes the pitch when converted to 44.1k.
A workaround is to up the pitch in the OT to +1.6
Edit: The way I found is to mixdown each sample in Cubase, so I will make slice files, then convert them to save time.
Any other software ideas for batch conversion without the distortion?
thanks.
Any audio editor should let you preserve pitch when changing the sample rate, that’s been standard since the 90s.
Reaper’s batch conversion (in the file menu) will definitely do it and has pretty good SINC resampling. That’s what I use 99% of the time these days, hardly even open Wavelab anymore.