ableton live pa (sample quality poll)

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What quality samples do you use for your loops for live pa?

44khz/16bit
9
43%
48khz/16bit
1
5%
44khz/24bit
9
43%
48khz/24bit
2
10%
 
Total votes: 21

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Post by sorgenkind »

44.1 / 24
but I am idiot I voted something else, sorry dude.
as per nyquist we do not really need 48, 24 is better beacuse of more headroom
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Post by hydrogen »

Thanks for the votes!

Interesting. I used to do 44/16 but then i realized that all my music recorded like that sounded like poop. But when i start running higher quality stuff, it seems that I have to deal with more processor related problems.

at 96khz its awesome latency but you can't run much audio. So I don't really see the point. :(
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Post by sorgenkind »

google a bit seeking info about nyquist theory, you'll see why everthing more the 44.1 is an overkill, unless you are a bat with supersonic hearing.
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Post by s.k. »

and too, if you plan on sending it as a demo, it will end up on a cd anyway (44k, 16bit), so yeah.
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Post by clubfoot »

is 44k/24bit gonna be better for live then?

I understand that anything more than 44k/16bit is overkill as this is the best you can render to CD. Is it overkill for live also? Or would there be a 24-bit benefit when playing WAV loops live?
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Post by Robot Criminal »

its definitely NOT overkill.
Its recommendable to work on higher bit/sample rates and not to go 44/16 until after mastering (if going on CD)
Working at low rates would b just stupid nowadays. :roll:

check -> http://recording.org/ftopic-34707-0.html
http://studio-central.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 4bit+16bit

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Post by sorgenkind »

check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2 ... ng_theorem

nyquist theory can be simply put like this:
you need to sample at twice as much as the freq. range you can hear.
Since we can hear up to 20 KHz (as babies, almost no one hears more than 16KHz around 30 years) a mere 40 KHz sampling frequency is enough, unless, like I stated before, we have do to with some bat ears.

If some people let fool themselves from crappy marketing tricks made to convince you that you need fucking 192 KHz to be cool it's OK but please, do not quote such vague and inconsistent information as if it were true.
It has also to be said that for every link one posts, the other could post other 10 links stating the exact opposite, there is apparently no final truth in internet.
Take a read at what bob katz writes:
http://www.digido.com/bob-katz/more-bits-please.html
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