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Budo
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Why do my MIDI tracks sound better when I encode to wav directly from Reason then they do when I encode from Home Studio?
sile2001
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Among other possibilities, I'm sure Reason has higher quality samples.
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tedluk
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What synths are you using in each program?
The obvious answer would be that you like the sounds of the synth in Reason better than the synth in Home Studio.
MIDI data is only a description of a performance, it does NOT, as has been explained countless times, contain any audio information. In order for you to play back a MIDI performance you must send the information to a MIDI compatible device and THAT is what generates the audio that you're recording as a .WAV.
Hope that makes sense.
Ted
The obvious answer would be that you like the sounds of the synth in Reason better than the synth in Home Studio.
MIDI data is only a description of a performance, it does NOT, as has been explained countless times, contain any audio information. In order for you to play back a MIDI performance you must send the information to a MIDI compatible device and THAT is what generates the audio that you're recording as a .WAV.
Hope that makes sense.
Ted
bthiesson
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It might help to think of a midi track as the digital equivalent of a pianoroll on an old fashioned player piano. The roll would play the same song on whatever piano it was operating, but different pianos have different tone qualities and the song might sound better on one piano than it would on another.
I use a lot of soundfonts, and probably have two dozen different GM banks
in my collection. They all have the same list of standard instruments, but there aren't two that sound exactly the same.
I use a lot of soundfonts, and probably have two dozen different GM banks
in my collection. They all have the same list of standard instruments, but there aren't two that sound exactly the same.
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Budo
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The midi tracks/synths are the same, they are imported from Reason and encoded at the (supposedly) same quality.
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tedluk
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Budo said:
Maybe I'm not understanding your question then. In your first post you said that you were "encoding" them in Reason and then in Home Studio. Now, if I'm understanding you, you're saying that you encode them all in Reason and export them to Home Studio and they sound different.
Again, if you import a MIDI file from Reason into Home Studio and play it back it will sound different because whatever synth/sampler you are using in Home Studio sounds different than the one in Reason. If you are importing .WAV files into Home Studio, assuming that they're playing back through the same amp/speakers and you're using the same bit depth and sampling rates (i.e. 24/44.1K), then they should sound the same. That is a digital file and should, given the stipulations above, be a bit for bit copy.
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Budo
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You've just helped me realise what I have (and haven't) been doing!
Thanks Guys!
Thanks Guys!
