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the higher your didgital resolution, the smaller/more frequent the steps are

analog is a smooth curve, whereas digital is a stepped approximation to that

subjective vs. objective - anyone remember the old 12 bit samplers? you (well, i) can here them, you can hear the digital artifacts! i can't believe we're arguing about this! can you tell the difference between an mp3 and an analog version? https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality?t=1548256131667

6 minutes ago, Royal Yaksman said:

The funny thing with this kind of stuff is whenever an individual is administering their own tests, they say it's blind and then somehow wind up (mostly) accurately picking a difference. Yet when the tests are administered by a 3rd party and are truly blind. They somehow fail miserably, or pick a difference one day only to be fooled on another day with a similar actual blind test.

This is codswallop in its yawningest form.

I thought about ending it there but for those wondering why I consider this the yawningest? I consider it such because even the people who say that it is better to have the highest quality before it is mixed to mp3 are off base. As the only frequencies that are going to be effected by the oversampling are frequencies that cannot be played back in high quality by the POS listening devices that the end user is going to be using.

But please by all means impress your audio buddies with your 1TB project file.😁

Which actually begs a question! Do these people try to share projects? "Yo dude I just sent you a link to my drop box, you're going to need to start downloading this morning if you hope to start adding to it this afternoon..."

mixing in your daw of choice, the more accurate the maths (ie, higher resolution) the more accurate your output will be, it's not an opinion, it's science

34 minutes ago, Kuusniemi said:

But the MP3 would sound so much better on vinyl.

i buy vinyl but tend to listen to the included mp3 download... convenience is king

as a hobbyist, i also game on the same pc as my daw software... very few people except me hear my musical efforts so, wtf, really? it's a bit like insisting on a tesla car just to go 5 minutes grocery shopping, and this argument seems like the home mechanic arguing with the guy who runs the town garage (where "garage" = "auto-repair-shop")?

6 minutes ago, cheap_guitar said:

24/44.1 here too. All that technology and effort to produce the most pristine sound possible, and the end user pulls out their $19.99 earbuds and listens to the stream on Soundcloud.

yeah but they're listening to the the master encoded to mp3/whatever, so pre-encoding should be as hi-res as possible, and avoid transcoding... having said that, we've always listened to, for example, abbey road mastered stuff on our cheap hi-fi's, so what's the difference really? that's why we check the final version on multiple systems

version FIVE already? blimey

as i understand it, aaf is more aimed at video post production? (of course that includes audio, who watches silent movies these days?)

i'd be surprised but impressed, considering the huge effort it would take, and considering the current video capabilities (somewhat lacking), if it gets added to cakewalk...

if you do a lot of in-the-box processing, the higher the resolution the better, as the maths is more accurate

4 hours ago, gmp said:

I've never gotten 1 email from anything to do with CbB. No notifications, nothing. I hope they fix this

same here

back in the old forum i suggested that moving to the new x-series gui was a missed opportunity to introduce scalability (vectorised rather than bitmapped) to the gui, and noel responded that i might be surprised with upcoming changes, but then it all went pear-shaped... so you never know (i looked but couldn't find that post)

years ago i had a summer job helping run some go-karts... during the opening times the engines were throttled down to the legal requirement but when we closed we opened them up and burned round that track!

fair point

45 minutes ago, abacab said:

Right.  You can access the release notes for the 8 updates to CbB by clicking the "Whats new" link in the help menu, or here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFOe_zJrd3x2EnaZ_Jc3iSbZPG2WANiCD4_RP83OjlA/edit

 

i'm surprised these are still being hosted on google docs

1 hour ago, wetdentist said:

i have 2 .bun/.cwb files (i forget which) that are corrupt from 2007.  i get told on forums to try opening them in Safe Mode, but when i do that, the project opens up; there's just nothing in it.  i have mentioned several times before that i wish there were a utility program that could open up corrupt .bun/.cwb files minus the stuff that is corrupting them.  like if a track had audiosnap in it, and that was what was corrupting the .bun/.cwb then it would open up the .bun/.cwb file WITHOUT audiosnap.

i generally learn important things the hard way, and this was one of them.  i NEVER use .bun/.cwb files!

you might be able to get the wav data from a bun by renaming it to .WAV, see here http://forum.cakewalk.com/Are-Cake-Walk-Bundle-files-the-Best-Way-to-Save-Everything-m1415907.aspx#1417418

/hth

"demo mode" has at least two benefits for bandlab:

1. they know who's using their software
2. they have a limited number of versions to support

but it could be done in a more user-friendly way (e.g., show the expiry/demo-mode date so users who are normally off-line can plan to do the update rather than being surprised by the "demo mode")

still the same here, nothing by email

the biggest difference with 8.5 is the UI... but you can install it alongside 8.5 while you get used to  it...

thanks, the star icon works

yes, thanks, i'm not completely useless! i have the following enabled (set to "on" or "email") but have never received any email for anything:

Send me news and information
Automatically follow new content I post
Automatically follow content I reply to
Method to use for content I follow automatically: A notification when new content is posted
New content for things I follow
Someone comments on something I follow
Someone reviews something I follow
Someone I am following makes a post
I receive a message
I am added to a conversation

and i have the  "Notify me of replies" switch set to "On" on forum replies

is the billionaire paying you yet, scook,  for doing his company's employees work?

yes, though none are "built in" so you might need to get up-to-speed on DAWs and VST instruments/plugins, how they work together...

/hth, have fun & good luck!

how do i know which threads i'm in? there seems to be no indicator of which threads in the forum i've contributed to, combined with no email notifications, and unpredictable website notifications (browsing to the site sometime says "this tread has..." but it's inconsistent)

i'm assuming i've missed a setting or something?

thanks for any help

well?

DXi version or VSTi?