Mono or stereo samples?

[whyterabbyt]

How am I supposed to choose which one to lose?

Choose the one that sounds better.

And if they're similar enough that you cant decide, then it hardly matters which one you choose, does it?

[lmv]

The captured samples also sound different from the original samples because they are played by Caustic with tweaks. It's because of the tweaks that I'm doing this. I want the samples to sound just the way they do in Caustic without going through the trouble of tweaking them (and, most likely, never achieving the exact same result).

And what exactly is the difference? What have you done already to investigate? Do you have any theory on what's happening there?

The difference is explained in the same part you quoted.
"The captured samples also sound different from the original samples because they are played by Caustic with tweaks."
I also posted a screenshot of Caustic with the tweaks.

[BertKoor]

Resampling a 22kHz 8bit wav as 48kHz 16bit played at 1.3x speed is a "tweak"? Or is it the panning?

Now seriously, you have not shown anything yet.

Sorry for my skeptism, but I don't buy any unfounded pixie dust theories.

[lmv]

Resampling a 22kHz 8bit wav as 48kHz 16bit played at 1.3x speed is a "tweak"? Or is it the panning?

Now seriously, you have not shown anything yet.

Sorry for my skeptism, but I don't buy any unfounded pixie dust theories.

Sigh. The tweaks are pan, tune, punch and decay. Those make the sample sound different.

Well, I'm using the desktop Caustic application to play and recapture the samples, and it plays them in stereo. I have the samples in mono, but I used to compose rough sketches in Caustic with certain changes applied to them.



I want to reuse those old sketches and do something with them in a proper DAW. It's very important that they sound exactly the same. Using just the raw samples will be very difficult because of the tweaks. Recreating pan is very easy, recreating tune is quite possible but imprecise, and recreating "punch" and decay may be well nigh impossible. I don't even know what "punch" is. I know it often sounds better, but I don't know what actual effect it is. And how much "decay" is really applied there? What is the application's idea of decay anyway?

But the answer I was looking for is whether "converting" the samples from mono to stereo involves any kind of liability.

[whyterabbyt]

Sigh. The tweaks are pan, tune, punch and decay. Those make the sample sound different.

remember i said that if you didnt do any specific stereo processing, and didnt change panning, your mono signal would be panned to the centre by default, and you'd be hearing the exact same thing in both channels?

im hoping you understood that if you didnt do any specific stereo processing, but do change panning, then you'll be hearing the exact same thing in both channels, except that it'll be louder in one than the other.

what you're getting in stereo is a louder version of the processed sample on one channel, and a quieter version of the exact same thing on the other.

unless the louder one clips, ditch the quieter one.

but, fwiw, panning cant actually make anything sound 'better', nor does it make the signal different; it just changes the balance between your left and right channel.