Exporting finished track from cubase, without losing quality
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Posted on Apr 12, 2009 11:33 pm
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Member Since: Apr 12, 2009
I have two questions....
1. I'll finish recording/mixing a song in cubase, it will sound exactly the way I want it. I'll export it as a wave file, and when I listen to it as a wave file in itunes/ect, I feel like it loses a lot of it's quaility. I record rap music, so I'm only dealing with an instrumental and the vocal tracks. My question is...How do I export the audio mixdown from cubase, without losing the quality?
2. If I upgrade from cubase LE to cubase 5, can I open the already recorded track from LE in 5?
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Apr 13, 2009 01:45 am Assuming you're exporting as PCM data (with at least a 16-bit word length at 44.1kS/s), you shouldn't really hear any appreciable difference.
If you're exporting at some horribly lossy lo-fi codec (such as a 160kbps MP3 or something) then there's your answer.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Apr 13, 2009 04:45 am i used to have the same issue.
at the end of the day, iTunes really, really sucks balls man.
try importing the finished product back into another project to check it i reckon.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Apr 13, 2009 04:48 am you proly already know, but if you still wanna use iTunes, you can right click on the song in iTunes, and select "get info" then you can select a preset to make it sound less crapy.
i usually go for "treble boost". seems to be the better choice of them.
cruxTypo SzarMember
Since: Jul 04, 2002
Apr 13, 2009 07:49 am Don't forget to click the box for Realtime Export when ur exporting to a WAV file at atleast 16 bit as was mentioned above. Simple choosing export mixdown will lose some quality, has to be Realtime to let it process correctly.
Sidenote, I was big stickler on this a long while back and I think there was a long ol'thread on this topic, but from wat i can surmise from my own experience and other forum members' input is that Cubase does not have a perfect mixdown algorithm, unlike Pro Tools and there is a slight difference between the project track and the exported file.
Apr 13, 2009 09:30 am Okay...thanks!
