Converting from 96khz/24-bit to 44.1/16 mp3 in Cakewalk??

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I've been recording and coverting my audio from 96Khz/24-bit to 44.1khz/16-bit all from within Cakewalk Sonar, then saving it as wav or mp3 file. Is this the best quality method for converting 96/24 sound to 44.1/16? Does Cakewalk do a good job of converting this or would another program be better at this?

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Beyond Music
 
i used to use cool edit pro for doing things like this. i think you can use cool edit 2000 - it's pretty inexpensive ($69) and gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of resampling audio...supporting sample rates up to 32/192. you can download a trial from syntrillium.com

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I've been recording and coverting my audio from 96Khz/24-bit to 44.1khz/16-bit all from within Cakewalk Sonar
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Not sure exactly how you've been doing this, as I don't believe Sonar has the ability to convert sample rates.

My personal feeling is you would be better off using another program. First, I think there are better dithering algorithms out there for converting the bit rate than the one used in Sonar. And secondly, as mentioned above, there's no way I know of to convert sample rates in Sonar.

FWIW, my preference would be Wavelab.
 
bit rates

Sorry, I meant bit rates. Sorry CAN convert from 24 to 16 bit. That' s basically what I'm concerned with. And I can also save as 'export audio' to the desired bit rate.
 
Yes!

Exactly what I'm looking for!! Awesome! Do you think it's better than Cakewalk Sonar's method? Better to make a noticible difference?
 
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see where this ReSample program does any dithering when changing bit rates.

I don't see the purpose in taking a 24 bit file and simply truncating to 16 bits. You would probably be better off just recording at 16 bits to start with.

As I said earlier, I'm not sure Sonar has the best algorithm, but at least it does dither.
 
From the Sounds Logical web site -


"option to apply various forms of dither (including user-supplied FIR noise- shaping filters) when re-quantizing;"


Isn't that what you were asking about?


As far as "does it sound BETTER than Sonar?"

well, I don't know about that. But Sonar can't down sample a 96Khz recording to 44 at all, and this will do it very nicely to my ears for under $30 bucks. There is a free demo somewhere on the web site which will let you listen to the first 30 seconds of a file you resample.
 
hmmm

Well as mentioned by another person, sonar WILL dither, I guess you're right about not being able to go from 96khz to 44.1 in Sonar.
 
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