Ableton Forum

oh my...after wrestling with other unpredictable daws for years...i have finally landed on Live.

have to say...EXTREMELY impressed. best money spent on software EVER. i only wish i hadnt wasted so much money on everything else.....

ableton/reason combo is invincible and so clean...

thats all..just wanted to give a bit o praise.

oh actually...i do have one question, cant seem to locate anything about dithering mixdowns in the manual. if i'm recording into live via optical at 24bit/48000, when i render the mix to disk..i see no options for dithering down to 16/41000. nor is there a dither plugin.

i'm thinking that because everything else in Live is so simple, maybe is just does it automatically when rendering. is that so?

thanks

Welcome aboard. I had that same elation when I came across live version 1. It was not as stable as now but I knew it was something big. Plus I could put away the slide rule and make music again.

I'm not totally sure I understand your question but when you render to disk you have the option of changing the sample rate and bit depth. There is no 41000 though. What would that sample rate do for you that 44000 wouldn't? Pardon my ignorance but I've never heard of it being used or offered.

From what I understand, live isn't capable of doing this. Despite what other users on this forum might argue, live isn't the ultimate mastering tool (though it definitely can be used to remaster files).

If I understand correctly- what you want is 24bit, 48khz for all audio within the Live Set itself, but you want to render the mixdown to 16bit, 44.1khz (CD quality, I think you accidentally said 41khz).

1- set "Live Preferences, Audio" menu to 24bit, 48khz (or whatever).

2- select "File, Render to disk". A menu will pop up. set appropriate fields to 16bit, 44.1khz


Enjoy!

do you know if live automatically dithers down from 24/48khx to 16/44.1?

i know in Cubase and others..they Strongly recommend inserting the dithering plug when mixing down from higher bit rates, because just converting it isnt recommended