How fast is CEP at converting sample rates?

[laptoppop]

I've got a big project I'm working on right now. It was tracked at 48Khz, 24 bit. I need to convert it to 44.1, 16 bit.

Right now, the software I'm using takes about 7 minutes to convert a 3.5 minute song on my machine (1.6 Ghz P4). This is very frustrating, to say the least.

How fast is CEP 2.0 at that task? Is the demo really fully functional - should I endure the download and give it a try? Will it let me save the result?

Thanks!
-lee-

[Tukkis]

laptoppop

the cool edit pro 2.0 demo is fully functional

you can do everything including saving for 21 days

after 21 days it stops working

why though do you wanna convert all your files

if you want to put it on cd just mixdown all your files and convert the single file to 44000 16bit

Tukkis

[dobro]

Tukkis - my guess is he's converting to CD parameters. Is that right, ltp? Also, the 2.0 doesn't stop working after 21 days, it just stops saving what you're working on. It continues to let you play with it, but you can't save anything you've done with it.

ltp - 3.5 minute songs take different time to process, depending on how big their digital size is. When I create a mixdown in Cool and then dither everything down to 44.1/16, it takes Cool about 20 seconds to handle a file. That's because I record at 24/44.1, so there's no sample rate conversion required (although when I used to record at 24/48, it still didn't take me as long as you to convert a file to CD resolution). But the speed of Cool Edit doesn't depend on Cool Edit, it depends on the speed of your computer. What are your computer specs?

[laptoppop]

Thanks for the info! Right now I'm mixing down to a single wav file - 48K sample rate, 24-bit samples - then converting it to put in on the CD. The conversion time is very slow (about twice as long as the song - a 3.5 minute song takes 7 minutes to convert).

I'm running a reasonable system - 1.6 Ghz Pentium 4 with 512 Mb RAM and a fast disk - so I'd hope for better performance than that.

Last night, I found a freeware app (ssrc from http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/ ) that seems to work great for my purpose.

I'll be downloading the CEP 2.0 demo in the next few days in any case though - looking at it, it has some tools that would be great to use. Of course, if it works like it appears, my purchase list is about to grow.

Does CEP 2.0 support ASIO or WDM audio drivers? Anyone using it with the MOTU 2048?

Thanks,
-lee-