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100 stems? what kind of music do you work on?

Live music, hard to say what style it is, a mix of rock, pop, world with full orchestra ( recorded)

It goes in Ableton live, 32 outputs, sound system with 80 speakers, a surround mapper to make the sound travel from any source. 3 to 8 piece band ...

@lapieuvre
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Some nice people here helped me to find the issue.
But I agree that there is still a small difference.
In my case it is not with Logic, but Cubase/SoundForge vs Ableton. The audio interface is the Montage.
Since it is very small difference now, I'm ...

Apart from the levels, the Ableton recording is Mono and the Cubase is Stereo - this is why you are hearing the big difference. You will need to check your input setting in Ableton to make sure you are recording in stereo.

Da Hand! This is awesome!
You cannot imagine how happy I am man...
I ...

Hi again.
Following instructions now I recorded again using the same MIDI track so there is no differences in what is being played.

My steps in Ableton:

- Checked the bit rate and frequency settings: 16Bits 44.1
- Checked the input level: -10.3
- Checked the output level: -10.3
- Created a new ...

you gotta stop thinking in terms of defaults. if you want to do comparisons, either adjust the input levels so that the signal peaks at the same level, or when making comparisons, level-match the samples in whatever app you are using to play them.

level-matching is a really important concept in ...

sorry, that's not a very good way to do a comparison. it's much better if you record exactly the same performance. if using a MIDI instrument, then this would be from pre-recorded MIDI notes.

apart from the fact that it's two different performances, the next obvious difference is that the samples ...

Hello again.
I recorded two short samples using a guitar patch from the Montage.
They are named after the DAW I used to record.
In both Cubase and Ableton I just created a black new project and started recording.
No audio effects applied.
The settings for recording are 16bits 44.1 on both Ableton ...

Hi.
For those who asked for my PC specs. If there is something missing, please let me know.

It's a laptop with:
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake 3.7 GHz, 6 Cores
RAM: 64 GB-DDR4 @2400 MHZ
The drive where the OS and DAWs are installed is a 1TB SSD M2 writing at 500mb/s
The drive where I ...

Live defaults to 24-bit samples for recording.

another question is how are you exporting the audio from Live, and what settings are you using?

Hi againg fishmonkey!
Thanks again for trying to help.
That's a good point. Here is how I'doing

- In Ableton, before recording I set the temporary audio ...

And yes, my PC is powerful, but I just put that to make a point and filter out some possible PC related answers and not to show off what I have here. By default config I believe you are wrong, since the settings I mentioned clearly state (in app) that they are recording related and not playback ...

All applications using default settings.

mistake #1, assuming that "default settings" in different DAWs will give the same results.

what bit depth is each DAW using?

exactly what are you recording?

are the recordings level-matched?

definitely put some lossless audio files up somewhere so we ...

jestermgee wrote:Good luck man...

As expected...

I don't think it is true. Somehow ABleton alters the sound quality when recording.

I would suggest if you have any kind of inclination about this, to throw "thinking" out the window and instead try and methodically prove it. Also keep in mind Live is not just used by a handful of hobbyists but is ...

If you have anything that could help me solve this, please share.


Share the projects. If not, I'm out for sure.

Hi!
It's not even a project.
I just create a blank project, add an audio track and start recording.
Only clips, no effects, standard config.
But if you want I can share the raw ...

Turn off Warping for the audio clip in Live after you record the audio. Does that fix it?

Hi Erik.
Yes, I tried that.
It cannot be the warp function because the raw wave file is poor. I mentioned that if I import the raw sample recorded in Ableton in another DAW, like Cubase, it sounds poorer ...