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| Author: | mutul [ Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | best way of converting 24 bit samples |
How to convert 24 bit WAV samples to SP-555 own ones to retain best possible sound? Do they stay 24 bit after conversion or get down to 16 bits? If they get converted to 16bit, wouldn't it be best to use an Apogee dithering plugin in Cubase first to dither down to 16 bit and then convert to sp format? |
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| Author: | blavatsky [ Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
i use formatfactory, I think you can specify rate and such. I don't really worry about dithering though. |
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| Author: | mutul [ Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
I know all that. What I wanna know is: are the sp555 format samples 24 or 16bit (if converting 24bit WAVs)? If they stay 24bit I don't have to dither down at all. |
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| Author: | cartesia [ Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
nobody knows, roland use their own format on the 404 & 555 just try it and see how it sounds |
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| Author: | sharpmotif [ Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
Samples must be either 16 or 8 bit and 44.1kHz. IIRC trying to import samples with another bit depth will result in an error. Importing with a different sampling rate will sound kinda like messing with the TIME parameter. I´ve tried importing/exporting through the SP-555 itself, the Roland converter software and through USB. It seems to me that it doesn´t really matter how it gets there, once it´s compressed it will sound basically the same. |
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| Author: | cartesia [ Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
I think he means what is the internal format, not what format should they be to import |
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| Author: | sharpmotif [ Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
Like you said, nobody really knows. SOS review says 2:1 compression. It´s definitely under 16bit and 44.1kHz fixed. |
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| Author: | mutul [ Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: best way of converting 24 bit samples |
Thanks guys for the info! Despite SP compression, using Apogee dithering when converting 24 to 16bit is still worth a try I guess. |
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