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I have seen a few posts about people getting different sounding audio while exporting. I have been experiencing this myself. It really doesn't make sense that what I hear while playing my arrangement ends up being different when I render it to a wave file.

My set only consists of 3 live 8 ambient synth midi instrument tracks. After export, the synths sound like their parameters have changed.

Export options:


For the time being, I've found that the free vst plugin "HGS WAV Recorder" captures the audio from master nicely, although it's takes as long as the arrangement to create the wav file.
http://www.hgsounds.com/shop/vst-plugin ... vst-plugin

I am doing something wrong when I export?

So far as I see you are not doing anything wrong.

What player are you using to listen to the exported track ?

Some players are not very neutral and sound different by them self,
and others have EQ's to beef up the sound.
You have to turn that EQ off !!!

Another little tip for sample rate.
Use 48Hz for film-music production. 44.1 for CD !!!

If you need better and higher quality, then I suggest to double the sample rate,
because that gives best result when down sampling.

88.2 for CD and 96 for film-music !!!

@simpli.cissimus:

Thanks for the response. I did try different settings. And in reality, I only need 44khz. While I am new to Live, I am not new to audio. I have converted many audio files even at the 16bit depth, and never has resampling introduced such a audible change. It really does sound as if the instrument parameters have changed.