Topic: Sample Rate Conversion Comparisons

[gratefulphish]

+T gratefulphish, i gave it a d/l and checked it out, but for recording 24-bit like i do, its another step for me and i honestly will prolly never use it, so i erased it. but for especially 16-bit folk doing 16/48 or folks who dont mind that extra step in 24-bit land, looks like a decent freeware program

just staying in WL 5.0 is much easier than doing wavelab>r8brain>wavelab so........

Bean, After looking at the various teat results from the second link, I decided it was worth that quick extra step.  I would have normally used SF, which looked okay in the tests, but if you believe what the tests showed, WL leaves a lot to be desired in that area.

[wbrisette]

RE: SRC - is there not a better resampling plugin for wavelab, that way you could simply batch process files, once tracked out, and achieve a better end result.

Yes. Look at:
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/

This is one of the best (and the tests also confirm it). Price is a bit steep, but then I think most of the plug-ins are overpriced.

Wayne

[Brian Skalinder]

Yes. Look at:
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/

This is one of the best (and the tests also confirm it). Price is a bit steep, but then I think most of the plug-ins are overpriced.

FWIW, in addition to top-notch SRC, the Ozone plug-in also offers the best dithering I've heard via MegaBitMax (MBIT+).  (See dither comparison and listen for yourself.)

[todd e]

werd up - this is exactly what i was lookign for....

thanks brian and wayne

[cleantone]

any good Mac solutions? I spent 12 hours in DP4 (at "best") converting 96K > 44.1K for a 90 minute stereo file. That wasn't very fun.

[todd e]

so i started digging deeper:

and stumbled across this comment/post on gearslutz...

Here is a test with the different sample rate conversion that many DAW's have. What we hear on the left side of the graph is in our hearing range. http://src.infinitewave.ca/ The one in Cubase/Nuendo 2. is not very good. Wavelab though is one program that is a lot better. Just having all the meters can tell you things that you could not hear in your home studio without proper monitors, high end converters and sound proofing on walls, ceiling and corners.

http://gearslutz.com/board/archive/index.php/t-58252.html


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http://src.infinitewave.ca/
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this link is the best way to compare, visually
unreal the difference in wavelab 5 internal, vs wavelab 5 192 resampler......

[wbrisette]

any good Mac solutions? I spent 12 hours in DP4 (at "best") converting 96K > 44.1K for a 90 minute stereo file. That wasn't very fun.

See my post about Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor. It includes the MBIT+ as part of the package.

[edit: Actually it was in the Dither thread... but check out Wave Editor]

Wayne

[cleantone]

Thanks Wayne. Too bad it is not a freeware. It is extremely rare that I need to convert sample rate and I have Peak and DP that both do it. I also have a few ways of going about this in the analog realm. Oh well. I can get that freeware one for PC's and use a PC if and when. I would love to hear about good free mac soft's for this purpose if anyone knows of one. I know how that sounds but I don't want to spend a hundo to downsample a file once a year or something.

[wbrisette]

Thanks Wayne. Too bad it is not a freeware. It is extremely rare that I need to convert sample rate and I have Peak and DP that both do it.

So do it in Peak after you bounce your mixdown. Peak isn't lacking in that regard.

Wayne

[todd e]

RE: SRC - is there not a better resampling plugin for wavelab, that way you could simply batch process files, once tracked out, and achieve a better end result.

Yes. Look at:
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/

This is one of the best (and the tests also confirm it). Price is a bit steep, but then I think most of the plug-ins are overpriced.

Wayne

do you have ozone3?  just curious as to where the resampling function actual resides?

[wbrisette]

do you have ozone3?  just curious as to where the resampling function actual resides?

Audiofile Engineering actually licensed the code and integrated it into their product, so it works a bit differently in Wave Editor. However it resampling and dithering are all part of the ozone3 plugin.

Wayne