Rendering in Ableton...

ef2020 · Post by **ef2020** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:12 pm

Hey guys,

I have searched, but to no avail on this topic...

Basically I have completed a Digital house mix of 12 tracks (all of approx 15mb and 320k). However, when rendering, I cannot get the mix to less than 400mb, even with zipping!!

Is there a way around this??

Reason being, I want to share it to send to my foreign friend and host it.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Cheers guys...

t1mp · Post by **t1mp** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:27 pm

Are you talking about rendering the project completly in its own contained folder or just a mix of the track?

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:37 pm

When you say 320k you say MP3, that's why it's bigger after rendering, the rendering outputs uncompressed WAV. Try lossless FLAC, RAR or 7-ZIP if you don't want to go lossy MP3/AAC/OGG. They're all alot better than standard ZIP.

ef2020 · Post by **ef2020** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:00 pm

Basically yeah, the complete project as a .wav file...

Cheers for replies so far guys... any other suggestions?

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:38 am

unfourtunatly, the only way to reduce the size is to reduce the quality.

a wave rendered at 16bit/44hz will always be the same size. if you go any lower than that, you'll start to get some noticble degradation in quality.

the only other solution is to find another form of lossless compression. try ogg vorbis or flac compression.

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:17 am

stonee wrote:unfourtunatly, the only way to reduce the size is to reduce the quality.

a wave rendered at 16bit/44hz will always be the same size. if you go any lower than that, you'll start to get some noticble degradation in quality.

the only other solution is to find another form of lossless compression. try ogg vorbis or flac compression.

what he said...Or open the wav in Itunes and right click and convert to MP3 at whatever settings your itunes preferences>General>"Import settings" is set to...

ef2020 · Post by **ef2020** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:27 pm

Awesome!! Cheers for that... have now solved the problem through iTunes.

Legend...

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:02 pm

happy to help, oh yeah make sure all the stoopid itunes "sound check" and other audio-degradation "features" in itunes are turned off...