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Sk106 · 3rd September 2008

I would assume the differences are redundant. (this is assuming without the usage of the plug-ins that came with the DAW application).
People say Reason and Orion have a sound of their own though - haven't tried it myself.

If there would be audiable differences, I would suggest they would come out the most with large track counts and plenty of conversion and/or editing and plugs.

A few canadians guys, calls themselves "infinate wave", did some pretty serious testing of this on a purely techical level. They published their results online - and even made a snazzy interface to look at it through. The test was based purely on software performance, and targeted downsampling a 96 khz rising sine tone to 44,1 khz within many hosts - noting aliasing problems and other things. I'm not sure how valid it is or how one might interpret it to the best way. For example, it seems Logic 8 got a worse result from being run on osx Tiger than osx Leopard. Assuming things like that is a true representation of the SRC of different hosts, it was a bit of an eyeopener to me. (especially since I'm on Steinberg software and it got pretty low score - bastards)

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3rd September 2008	#7
Sk106 Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,347	I would assume the differences are redundant. (this is assuming without the usage of the plug-ins that came with the DAW application). People say Reason and Orion have a sound of their own though - haven't tried it myself. If there would be audiable differences, I would suggest they would come out the most with large track counts and plenty of conversion and/or editing and plugs. A few canadians guys, calls themselves "infinate wave", did some pretty serious testing of this on a purely techical level. They published their results online - and even made a snazzy interface to look at it through. The test was based purely on software performance, and targeted downsampling a 96 khz rising sine tone to 44,1 khz within many hosts - noting aliasing problems and other things. I'm not sure how valid it is or how one might interpret it to the best way. For example, it seems Logic 8 got a worse result from being run on osx Tiger than osx Leopard. Assuming things like that is a true representation of the SRC of different hosts, it was a bit of an eyeopener to me. (especially since I'm on Steinberg software and it got pretty low score - bastards) SRC Comparisons __________________ "Listen through the equipment, not to the equipment" - Bill Putnam