File sounds different in Cakewalk than in Soundforge?
On Jul 5, 1:07 am, Doc wrote:
When I export a file from Cakewalk Home Studio 2, then tweak it in
Soundforge5, then import back into Cakewalk, I swear it sounds
different. I'll deal with some harsh sibilants in Soundforge, get it
the way I like it, but in Cakewalk there's a harsh edge again.
There shouldn't be a difference if all things are equal, but they may
not be. One of the things that separates one DAW program from another
is the mathematical algorithms and tricks that they apply internally,
and those are almost certainly different between those two programs.
So what you're hearing is quite possible.
An interesting experiment would be to save the file in Sound Forge,
then open it in Cakewalk, and save it again (under another name) in
Cakewalk. Burn a CD that contains the two files and compare what you
hear on the CD. Or simpler (but not as independent a test) you could
open the file in Sound Forge that you saved in Cakewalk and compare it
to the version of the file that hadn't been through Cakewalk.
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