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dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:11 pm

I was trying to use some 24 bit kick samples and when I tried to add the into mudrum, sampla, etc.. it wouldn't load. If Mulab can't load 24 bit samples does anyone know a good workaround or way to mass convert them to 16 bit?

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:18 pm

Do you have a link to one of those samples? Then i can check why they don't load.

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:20 pm

Here ya go: http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/mar ... s-in-total

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:55 pm

Edit: It's currently an unsupported version of the wave file format.

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:39 pm

I re-exported one in Audacity and it works fine. What do you mean an ID of -2? I'm curious to know what that means

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:00 pm

See https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/ ... aveFormat/

In this case the 3rd green field (AudioFormat) is -2 which is currently an unsupported version of the wave file format.

> DiGiT < · Post by **> DiGiT <** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:05 pm

woah!

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:10 pm

Oh cool! So the file fmt is claiming to be compressed when the actual file should not be correct? Or is this WAY over my head and I have no idea what I just read

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:59 am

Ok did some more research and i was first mistaken so i corrected my previous posts on this. Those wave files use a special version of the wave file format which currently is not yet supported. Short-term solution is to convert the wave files to a readable format version.

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:07 pm

Do you know of any way to mass-convert them? I don't really feel like putting a multi-hour day of re-exporting 500 samples.

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:25 pm

I don't know such free tool out of my head, i would have to google for it too.

I've taken note to R&D supporting that kind of wave files too, though i can't give an ETA on it yet.

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:30 pm

Understood. Thanks!

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:01 pm

FFmpeg seems to read them happily - try batch converting to FLAC and back to WAV (or WAV to WAV if you can convince it to). MuLab seemed happy with the result when I tried one.

AndreasD · Post by **AndreasD** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:31 pm

dakkra wrote:Do you know of any way to mass-convert them? I don't really feel like putting a multi-hour day of re-exporting 500 samples.

The free Wavosaur audio editor offers a batch conversion. Those kick samples you pointed at converted in less than a minute. In Wavosaur use Batch Processing and select "Convert to Wav".
The converted files are recognized by Mulab.

dakkra · Post by **dakkra** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:29 pm

AndreasD wrote:
dakkra wrote:Do you know of any way to mass-convert them? I don't really feel like putting a multi-hour day of re-exporting 500 samples.
The free Wavosaur audio editor offers a batch conversion. Those kick samples you pointed at converted in less than a minute. In Wavosaur use Batch Processing and select "Convert to Wav".
The converted files are recognized by Mulab.

Oh cool thank you!

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Can Mulab use 24 bit samples?