Bundles

[Stephen Jones]

I was wondering if someone has some thoughts on this (I have pretty sensitive ears, so this may only be a consideration for the audiophiles). I was archiving some work I've done here - saving it in Bundle form first to the hard drive and then copying it to a CD burner - and I thought I'd compare the undeleted work file on my C drive with the new bundled file on my CD writer. Listening in headphones, it turns out the bundled file, once loaded back into Cakewalk, was slightly choppier than the original. I noticed this especially on an acoustic guitar track - not as smooth, and not as warm-sounding. When compared to each other I could figure out which version was which every time. Again, the differences are extremely slight, but I'm using Cakewalk to record artists in the area and don't want to be compromising quality for the sake of computer memory...
Has anyone else noticed this and is there something I'm not doing when I'm eiether saving these bundled files or recalling them?
Thanks very much,
Stephen
ps - I'm using CW 8.04

[AlChuck]

All that bundling does is place all the digital audio data into a single file along with the project data and MIDI data... when you open it back up, apprently instead of a bunch of separate WAV files inside Cakewalk's audio directory, it's in one file. I cannot imagine any reason why it would sound any different before or after.

[Stephen Jones]

Hey.
Actually after some more testing I think you're right, and that any differences before were probably caused by minute volume discrepencies which caused made my headphones to have bass swells for one track and not the other. I'm finding with Cakewalk that in the Master Faders section (sound cards), there's a lot of movement between any one db "level" (ie 10db). You can still move the faders up a wee bit before it goes "to 11", which would account for some discrepency if moving them before comparing tracks.
Sorry 'bout that.
stephen

[AlChuck]

Whew... my weltanshauung remains intact for another day...

[dachay2tnr]

Yeah, you certainly don't want your weltanshauung to get out of whack.

BTW, is that a body part?

[AlChuck]

Not on my body...

[gnarled]

Could have been just the fact that you're reading the .bun off the CDR drive too......no? I guess that would depend on how many tracks you had and the transfer rate of your burner.

[Stephen Jones]

Actually, I had pasted the bundle file from the CDR back into my computer before I compared them. That's what you mean, right?
thanks,
stephen
ps - I had to look up weltanshauung. Good word.