KVR Audio

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:13 am

Just thought some here might find this interesting...

Someone pulled the ol' Pepsi challenge using one single sample exported from Cubase and reason. The sample was otherwise completely unprocessed outside of normalization:

http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.ph ... genumber=1

The threadstarter gave 2 samples and asked people not only if they could tell which came from which, but which they thought sounded *better*

Interesting enough, the majority of those that heard the difference voted "Reason is A but B sounds better".

Just curious to what people think of the test itself more than the actual results.

rbet · Post by **rbet** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:26 am

Chase is such a controversy whore.

Rellik · Post by **Rellik** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:37 am

So this is NN-XT vs. actual host audio?

I don't think that's really a fair comparison at all... a sampler and an audio sequencer don't necessarily have the same requirements. It's perfectly possible that the two sound 100% the same, but you can't just assume something like that between two different kinds of audio playback paradigms.

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:37 am

rbet wrote:Chase is such a controversy whore.

Oh yea? well "WHOrE" upside-down is "3JOHM", so who's the whore now?

rounser · Post by **rounser** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:41 am

He patched it through Reason's mixer rather than straight to the outs (WHY?), so the mixers of the two apps are applying different panning laws...so before anyone gets excited, the test is invalid.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:42 am

What the hell? Reason is the best there is! It's better than Cubase in every way! You just suck!

Just kidding.

Too lazy to sign up just to listen to those samples. What's the point in comparing them, anyway?

rbet · Post by **rbet** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:42 am

Definately Not Chase wrote:
rbet wrote:Chase is such a controversy whore.

Oh yea? well "WHOrE" upside-down is "3JOHM", so who's the whore now?

um, Krim?

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:46 am

Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:48 am

AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.

Sorry, that's "20-30%" better.

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:50 am

AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.

Because traction isn't cubase or reason.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:00 am

The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.
Because traction isn't cubase or reason.

I know. Therefore it sucks. So why even bother measuring their suckiness.

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:02 am

AD80 wrote:
The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.
Because traction isn't cubase or reason.
I know. Therefore it sucks. So why even bother measuring their suckiness.

LOL you're like the BONES of Tracktion

Have a nice life,
Chase

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:42 am

The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:
The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.
Because traction isn't cubase or reason.
I know. Therefore it sucks. So why even bother measuring their suckiness.
LOL you're like the BONES of Tracktion

Have a nice life,
Chase

Except, I'm only joking. All host sound the same to me.

davor · Post by **davor** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:44 am

The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:

I'm not going to get into what sounds better or worse, but not a single sequencer sounds exactly the same like any other, especially when it comes to the playback of vstis, and rendering of vst effects.

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:47 am

AD80 wrote:
The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:
The Chase wrote:
AD80 wrote:Whats the point of this test anyways? Tracktion sounds better than Reason and Cubase combined times 100. Why even waste your time.
Because traction isn't cubase or reason.
I know. Therefore it sucks. So why even bother measuring their suckiness.
LOL you're like the BONES of Tracktion

Have a nice life,
Chase
Except, I'm only joking. All host sound the same to me.

(me too)

Reason vs. Cubase Blind Testing @ DOA