Changing samplerate within Live without repitching?

Marquis · Post by **Marquis** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:54 am

Hi.

I've recorded my band for the first time using Live as a full DAW - wow, how quick and easy!

Only hassle is I tried recording at 96khz sample rate, for about 8 channels of audio plus me running a couple impulses and quite a few compressors, utilitys, filters, reverbs etc. Was fine at the time, but on playback my poor PC struggles a bit.

I do my recording on one PC and my producing on a different one. And I find that having copied the project across, I can't do all the production tricks and effecting I need with the sample rate that high or my pc hates me. And of course, when I drop the sample rate down in preferences, the wav files get transposed.

So ... How do I bulk drop the sample rates from 96KHz to 48Khz without changing the pitch? Can this be done within Live, or do I need to go outside of Live to do it, and if I have to go outside are there any utils you can recommend?

Cheers

Mark

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:00 am

Convert sample rate in an External editor..
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (If you want to try doing it now, OpenSource)
Hope this helps

Edit - If you want to do this inside live, you could render to disk and select the sample rate in the menu. It will then create a new file.

Marquis · Post by **Marquis** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:20 am

thanks kinetic.

I've read other people have weird things happenign when they render to a bit rate otehr than what the samples were recorded at, plus i think track by tack it's labour-intensive. I'm looking for a more batch type approach to it.

I'm sure Adobe Audition/Cool Edit Pro has the power to run macro functions - maybe audacity does too.

Cheers