Sound Quality

lyxl202 · Post by **lyxl202** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:25 pm

I record my beats into Ableton from my MPC2000xl. Is rendering to disc the best way to save a song if I want to send it to others? What are the best parameters to get the best quality?

Superchibisan · Post by **Superchibisan** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:23 am

32 bit/44.1 or higher.

no dithering.

leinad · Post by **leinad** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:45 pm

if you settle with 44.1khz you might as well be more than happy with 24bits.

I'd choose 24bit/48khz: 48khz would cause less aliasing when upsampling to 96khz or 192khz, which might be done internally by some instruments/effects.

lyxl202 · Post by **lyxl202** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:21 pm

with 24 bit...should I save as wav or aiff file?

lyxl202 · Post by **lyxl202** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:23 pm

and should I consolidate 1st? Sorry for all the dumb q's

leinad · Post by **leinad** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:49 pm

don't know about aiff ( I'm a PC

), but I always use wav.

wav as well as aiff store the data as (usually - and in the case of Live definitely) uncompressed PCM, so no data is lost, neither in wav, nor in aiff.

If you're on a mac and work with lot's of build-for-mac products go aiff, else go wav since every pc software can swallow them.

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no need to consolidate.

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