leisuremuffin wrote:it's about your unsupported claim that warp affects audio at orig tempo.
Ah ok. Yes this was almost a year ago now? A long thread .. ok ..
People percieve a difference in the sound quality of Live's output compared to other sequencers. These are not just kids on a messageboard, or casual music producers, but professionals in the music industry of all kinds that engineer sound everyday.
The sound quality has always been fine for me. But if I wanted to concede that there might be a difference it was a certain muddiness on the top end lack of clarity and definition compared to a similar project in Logic or Pro Tools.
It has been coming from so many people for so long that -- if you are reasonable and unbiased -- it is only fair to take it seriously and try and conjecture why that is.
And my theory was this:
That since Live uses clips for all of the audio samples, and many people either do not understand warp modes, or do not carefully track which clips are running at which modes as the build the project ...
That by the time you are deep enough into the session, the arrange view is filled with a mass of clips that are running in different modes -- many of them complex (when they dont need and shouldnt be) and many of the samples are running far away from original tempo.
So:
The sum aggregate of all the warping - especially complex - or clips in beats NOT running at original tempo -- is a percieved degradation of the output.
This was my theory at the time and I dont know if I expressed that clearly enough.
But I dont recall insisting that clips running at beats mode in original tempo affect the sound quality. Im pretty sure I didnt -- especially if someone (you?) ran carefully designed tests to prove that they didnt.
My ego is honestly not that involved in being right, to care whether or not I am 100% of the time. Honest.
But if you ran those tests and they were properly done then thats cool, we learned something.
And I did apologize already for giving you a hard time on here, I'm pretty sure I did multiple times, and you keep rejecting that as not good enough.
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