Whats up folks, I'm new to Ableton Live and I didn't find the answer on how to deal with different sample rate files that we throw up in the project. I think it is real time resampling, consuming processing power and playing back at a "high quality" as we set on the preferences, but I don't think any real time resampling can really be hight quality.
I'm coming from reaper where every audio clip gets a sign that is at a different sample rate from the project, and we have a few algorithms to choose in the preferences in regards to how good the real time resampling will be (or the ratio between quality and cpu efficiency), but giving you always the option to just process the resample at best offline quality right away at the arrangement, which I always do, and a lot of times the difference is huge, specially when you starts processing the audio.
Seems like live is just playing back different sample rates converting in real time, and I have a feeling this can't end up well.
How you deal with that ? You just don't care or what you do about that ? I didn't see an option to offline process the resample.
ableton: importing different sample rate files
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- KVRist
- 249 posts since 13 Oct, 2018
I usually avoid using different sample rates in Live, but when I need to do so, I just don't care and everything sounds fine to me.
I also often use Kontakt libraries and sampled instruments, and they even don't care telling you at what sample rate they provide the samples. After some researches I know that Spitfire Audio and Native Instruments for exemple are usually 48kHz, Embertone, 8dio or Soniccouture are usually 44khz.
I never felt any issue when using these instruments in a different sample rate session (I usually run Live at 48kHz).
So I guess real time sample rate conversion is not so bad today...
Regarding Live specifically, I think it uses a very good offline sample rate conversion algo. Anyway, you will need to test it by yourself : most people like me don't care but maybe you will hear the nasty artifacts...
I also often use Kontakt libraries and sampled instruments, and they even don't care telling you at what sample rate they provide the samples. After some researches I know that Spitfire Audio and Native Instruments for exemple are usually 48kHz, Embertone, 8dio or Soniccouture are usually 44khz.
I never felt any issue when using these instruments in a different sample rate session (I usually run Live at 48kHz).
So I guess real time sample rate conversion is not so bad today...
Regarding Live specifically, I think it uses a very good offline sample rate conversion algo. Anyway, you will need to test it by yourself : most people like me don't care but maybe you will hear the nasty artifacts...