Weird Lookin' Waveforms (Lopsided)

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:13 am

I always forget to mention this one but its been buggin' me for some time now, so I'll report it here.
Does anyone know why waveforms in Live (Some) sometimes appear lopsided ?
I mean I noticed this again when I was busy working on cutting some audio recordings. Inside my audio editor the waveforms looked normal (What I would expect them to look like), but when they were analysed by Live, they were lopsided and uneven (even though they were mono, they appeared more below than above and not centre in the display...)
I think this should be looked at. Is there an explanation ableton ?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:22 pm

i just saw this the other day for the first time, but actually i don't think i saw it in live.

i think it appeared in a section of a rendered mix when i viewed it in CD architect.

i didn't know what to make of it either

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:30 pm

Yeah ... thanks for responding longjohns.
See I noticed this ages ago (Version 5) but since it didn't actually affect the sound I never thought of reporting it.
For me its when I look at the waveform (Certain types) in my external editor that I noticed Live was displaying them weird.
To be honest I trust the wave editor more than I trust lives display, and I think something is slightly wrong here.
I wonder if many people have noticed (I doubt they would if they do all their editing inside live)
d.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:07 pm

not noticed it, but the correct term for this is ' DC offset '

EG : "some of my waves all appear with a DC offset"

if you render the eventual output from Live and then take the resulting render into a wave editor - is the offset still present in the rendered wave ?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:21 pm

i wonder then if it is something which could be corrected by resampling through a utility plug with the DC switch on??

Cryptic UK · Post by **Cryptic UK** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:20 pm

Yeah ive noticed this aswell, very strange.