Dear Kvrians!

My friend-drummer- just started his voyage into sampling hehe with the basic alesis sample pad. The included samples are, well let's stay positive here. Anyways I want to make him a nice set of good quality samples, but all of them need to be 16-bit, 48khz and mono . Converting so many files one by one is a total drag and I was wondering if there's a way to do this kind of conversion in a batch: where I chose the files I want set their destination type and just start converting all at once??? Any help and suggestions much appreciated!

Greetz
Mike

Voxengo's r8brain should do the trick..

http://www.voxengo.com/product/r8brain/

Edit - maybe not, don't think it does mono, but NCH's switch audio file converter does:

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

Foobar. For best resampling quality use the SoX plugin.

I agree w/Foobar. Can do many conversion types, in a batch.

I'd recommend the little known program 'Audio Move'

I use this:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Works for me. Never felt the need to look elsewhere.

It's 38 USD, apparently. There's a 21 day trial period, though.

What ermi said. Use SoX plugin for Foobar2000 and convert them with it. The best free sample rate converter, and it's very easy to do a batch conversion within Foobar. I do it all the time. Foobar is the best player for musicians out there. I use 1by1 also for previewing samples, but Foobar rules for everything else, especially conversion.

Voxengo r8rain is also excellent, but it can't do stereo to mono conversion. You have to convert them to mono yourself. At one time I did it with Wavosaur's [free, small audio editor] batch converter, and then with r8rain. with great results, too. I didn't know about SoX for Foobar at the time.

Cheers!

wavosaur (windows).

http://www.wavosaur.com/

don't know if it does mono atm.

Thank you guys! What would I do without KVR forum I guess I'll try foobar's plugin and wavosaur and share my experience later...
Mike

You can do it in one swoop with Reaper, using its Batch file converter (access via top menu File->Batch file/item converter)...

QSox: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsox/

I was gonna say Foobar and Wavosaur too.


Foobar just does not get enough love.

My favourite trick with it is:
Drag all my wavs from a project into a new playlist - order them till it sounds
ok and then render them all out seamlessly as one new wav. Super quick way to prototype and knock-up tracks. It gives you options within that framework too.
Super versatile.

It is the next best thing to (not sliced bread) http://www.icedaudio.com/

Guess us poor pc bods will never get this little gem.

The ONLY reason a mac user gets to gloat in my face, otherwise, stfu!

Hi everybody!

Many thanks once more for your input! Much appreciated

I am going with wavosaur for this task as it is the most straight forward for my 80's head :p
OK - big change of mind. WOW! Reaper is amazing does all of the 3 mods I required all at once on as many files I want!!!

but foobar is definitely worth keeping just as a player and supports vst fx!, great heads up!

Now off for a romantic evening of sample conversion

Best greets
Mike

Just to let you know, when you tick "Use FX" in that Reaper dialogue you can batch process with mutiple effects too.