Brian Hunt Music
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I use ableton live 8 and I want to upgrade to 9 but I feel ableton lacks in sound quality. Whats you guys' opinion on this issue?
The problem is that a lot of people are eager to jump on the bandwagon and blame esoteric reasons such as this "summing problem" and looking at those SRC charts and not really understanding much about them or, in the specific case of Live, abusing the warping options and then claiming there are "sound quality problems". But hey, surely it can't be my amateurish mix! And so the case spreads on the internet like wildfire.
I'm not saying everyone's wrong (nor even that I'm somehow an expert on digital audio), just that what gets called out as a summing engine issue is often just a combination of misunderstanding and lack of experience with how Live (or any other program) actually treats audio. In other words, it is very easy to f*ck up your sound in Live; that doesn't mean it has quality issues. Not totally ruling out the possibility that there would be some issues, but they tend to be very very specific situations rather than overall problems with the audio engine.
SRC in Live isnt good. But SRC in many DAWs isnt good and most decent producers will probably eliminate it from the workflow anyway. For example you should be exporting floating point files from Live, recorded material should be at the right SR etc.
So if someones process involves using lots of 44.1k audio loops that are just thrown into the DAW, then the SR of the DAW is gonna have a huge impact.
i use ableton live 8 suite. I find a good or great limiter from waves.com crisps things up. Such as the lls.