weird Ableton Wav Processing -- pics inside

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weird Ableton Wav Processing -- pics inside

Post by ARDJ » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:57 pm

hi everyone,

tried to figure this out myself but the last 24hrs has me scratching my head. i was given stems to a song that was done in protools i believe. i got sent the wavs (16bit, 44.1) and after loading them up in ableton noticed something very odd.

ableton is showing the waves as severly distorted. i know some of these wavs are mono files and it looks like ableton is trying to sum it together into a stereo file? i've tried putting the utility plug on the channel with a few settings but no such luck.

Sonar loads it up fine, here are the pics. any idea?

edit: don't mind the gain boost on the ableton pic, even bringing the gain down by 40db doesn't do anything.

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Post by Tone Deft » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:58 pm

how does it sound?
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Post by ARDJ » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:59 pm

nails on a chalkboard run through ohmicide
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Post by Machinate » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:01 pm

that looks like really badly corrupted wavefiles... or they may be SDIIs or something? I believe Live doesn't handle them properly, even though it's supposed to.
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Post by Tone Deft » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:02 pm

my guess is that the PCM isn't being decoded, corrupted file or somehow it's a format that Live can't handle but decided to ingest.
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Post by sweetjesus » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:04 pm

try running ur screenshot thru a bardcode scanner
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Post by LeifonMars » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:15 pm

sweetjesus wrote:try running ur screenshot thru a bardcode scanner
What a wonderfull idea for a controller: midi sending barcode scanner placed in front of your screen controlling your ext. hardware!
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Post by ARDJ » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:21 pm

well in case anyone cares, i loaded these up in adobe audtion selected batch convert, told it to convert it to stereo files and it worked.

freakin weird if you ask me.
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Post by sweetjesus » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:37 pm

LeifonMars wrote:
sweetjesus wrote:try running ur screenshot thru a bardcode scanner
What a wonderfull idea for a controller: midi sending barcode scanner placed in front of your screen controlling your ext. hardware!
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Re: weird Ableton Wav Processing -- pics inside

Post by Nod » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:04 pm

ARDJ wrote:hi everyone,

tried to figure this out myself but the last 24hrs has me scratching my head. i was given stems to a song that was done in protools i believe. i got sent the wavs (16bit, 44.1) and after loading them up in ableton noticed something very odd.
It might not be the case but I've worked on similar Protools exports, as Mac aiff's, come out weird when imported in various hosts - it was a while ago but sure it was something along the lines of the file 'header' - type of Endian iirc.

It was a while ago - so the above may be bollocks :)
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Post by elementv » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:09 pm

Maybe it will create Bruce Lee sounds?

http://www.barcodeart.com/art/portrait/ ... rames.html
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Post by ReverendZed » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:48 pm

ARDJ wrote:well in case anyone cares, i loaded these up in adobe audtion selected batch convert, told it to convert it to stereo files and it worked.

freakin weird if you ask me.
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Post by ReverendZed » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:52 pm

elementv wrote:Maybe it will create Bruce Lee sounds?

http://www.barcodeart.com/art/portrait/ ... rames.html
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Post by kb420 » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:56 pm

That's weird.

Sonar seemed to load it up fine.
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Post by beats me » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:50 pm

Are you using cracked Waves plug-ins? Those turn waveforms into bar codes that they can just scan to determine how many thousands of dollars you owe them.
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