Samplitude Question!! Anyone??

[Gravity8058]

I'm in a mastering session and I'm running two instances of Samp. The first is 24bit/ 88.2k for the source playback, the second is 16bit/ 44.1k for recapturing.
I loaded the hi rez files into the first session (and am sure they are 24bit) however, in the bottom right hand window of the screen it reads "16 bit Playback" when I hit play (that same window reads "Track 1" when I stop playback)

I want to make sure I dont have a setting wrong???

Thanks in advance slutz!

[fifthcircle]

What are your device settings? And are you using ASIO with 2 different sound cards for this capture? At any bit rate, you do not want to ever choose less than 24 bit device communication. Set your record bit rate in the record options. Also, check your dither to make sure that those settings are correct. Sequoia has a 16 bit output option, but I don't believe Samp has it. In any case, check your settings.

You also may want to try MME. You can play out one and in the other in the same session with asynchronous sample rates. Route out the channel on one card at the original sample rate. Come in the new card and in the record options, set the bit and new sample rate. When it goes into your VIP, the object will say "resample" but don't wory about it.

When the capture is done, there is an option under the range menu for copying marks into an audio file. This will preserve your PQ marks. Close the session and reopen your new wav file and burn to CD.

--Ben

[kriSh]

If you just use one DAW - why do you use two instances of Samplitude anyway?

You might want to use the export function for capturing (using internal resampling & dither @high quality settings OR resampling the high resolution export files afterwards with voxengo r8brain and reimporting them to limit and dither afterwards the resampling process to avoid digital over possibilities).

I find mastering automation quite easy with the object handling features.

-kriSh

[Gravity8058]

Gentlemen, thanks for you help. I'm retarted, I had the playback session set to MME instead of ASIO. I'm all good.

[Greg B]

Originally Posted by Gravity8058

I'm in a mastering session and I'm running two instances of Samp. The first is 24bit/ 88.2k for the source playback, the second is 16bit/ 44.1k for recapturing.
I loaded the hi rez files into the first session (and am sure they are 24bit) however, in the bottom right hand window of the screen it reads "16 bit Playback" when I hit play (that same window reads "Track 1" when I stop playback)

I want to make sure I dont have a setting wrong???

Thanks in advance slutz!

I know you've already solved the problem, but just so you know: I've had better results recapturing in 32 Bit or 24 Bit/96k and then dithering, then with recapturing in 16bit/44.1 UNLESS you don't edit the recaptured audio in any way after it's recorded. Even simple volume changes and limiting in 16Bit/44.1 will hurt the resolution (more than POW-R 3 Dither). Of course do whatever your ears tell you.