ACID XPress -- sound quality

[Giganova]

hiya all,

when I import a song, recorded on my multitrack-recorder, as .wav file
into ACID XPress (installed on a laptop) to edit the song, I notice that there
is a significant loss of quality. If I export the edited song (as .wma or .rm)
the quality has degraded so much that the song is basically useless.
Unfortunately there are no other useful export option (such as .wav).
Is this a problem intrinsic in ACID XPress or am I doing something wrong?
With ACID XPress is seems that I cannot produce professional quality songs :-(
Is ACIS 3 Pro the solution? Any comments are welcome! Thanx!

 

[AlChuck]

Well, I'm not sure, but is it possible that you are using the worst possible settings for your Real Audio or Windows Media files? Are there any options there when you export?

I have the Pro version so I can't be sure they haven't crippled Express in some way, but what would be the point of offering a freebie version to attract potential customers if the output was constrained to the most highly compressed (and most crappy-sounding) settings of the formats it exports to?

 

[Brad]

I don't think you can export .wav files out of Xpress.

I am concerned with the fact that when you import your track as a .wav file, that there is some loss. You shouldn't be getting a noticeable loss from the software that plays back that wav- could it be the method you are using to convert your multi-track audio to .wav? How are you doing that?