![]() Note that even though the “Selection Only” option is checked in the Analysis Window, the entire audio file was selected in both cases when I ran the analysis. You can see those results here:Īs you can see, the results are identical. Right click and choose “Save As” to download these to your computer if you want, and remember the little click you hear at the start of both files was intentional.Īfter that, I opened both files up Audiofile Engineering’s Wave Editor, and ran an audio analysis on them both. You can listen to the files yourself here: This was done at multiple volume levels with my monitors as well. Not the most scientific, but regardless I could hear no difference between the two files anyway. However she was watching Amazing Race on TV, so I had to just turn off the computer screen and do it manually a bunch of times without keeping count of how often I pressed the button. Normally I’d get my wife to help me by toggling these while I wasn’t looking, so that the observations are done blind. This way I could instantly toggle between them with one button press. I dragged them both into Live (again making sure warping was off) and assigned a MIDI controller to mute one track while soloing the other. The first thing I wanted to do is just listen to these two files and see if I could hear an obvious difference. Then I Exported the stems from Live into a single stereo 24bit wav file just like before. For day to day use this is no issue at all, but I want to make sure the volumes are identical to what I set in Logic. For instance, if you drag them with the mouse they might really be set to -3.045dB, even though they show -3dB. Many people don’t realize this, but Live’s faders only show a resolution of one decimal place, but can actually be slightly different if you drag them with the mouse or use a MIDI controller. It’s important in Live to actually type the exact value you want for the value faders. First step is to drag all of the stems into Live, MAKE SURE WARPING IS OFF, and then lower all of Live’s volume faders to -3dB. This way Logic is using the same pan law that Ableton Live uses (Live does not allow you to change the pan law).Īfter that I bounced all of the stems into a single stereo 24bit wav file. Next I made sure to change Logic’s pan law to “-3dB (Compensated)” in the project settings. ![]() ![]() (Command+Click on each image below to view it larger in a new Tab) Step one was to import all the stems into Logic, and lower each track fader to be exactly -3dB. I did run the test on song-length stems as well, and got the same results as with these shorter files, for those that are curious. I kept the stems at 17 bars to keep the file sizes smaller, with a short click at the very beginning to assist in lining up the files for comparison later on. ![]() For those of you who’d like to use these same stems in your own DAW of choice, you can download all the 24bit stems here:īecause I don’t have time at the moment to write new material for a test like this, I just used some stems from one of my recent songs. ![]() The basic premise of the test is pretty simple, I’ll use the same set of audio stems in each application, and then compare the rendered results. So for this comparison I’m going to be using Apple Logic Pro v9.1.5 in 32bit mode, and Ableton Live v8.2.6. So I’m only going to focus on the two DAWs I know and use the most (which also happen have to most heated debates on inherent sound quality), Ableton Live and Apple Logic Pro. And besides, the test is easy enough for anyone to run on their own. But, I’m super busy with the mastering business lately, and realistically I don’t have the time to learn the intricacies of each DAW to make sure that I’m doing the test as fairly as possible. Originally I had planned to do a huge, comprehensive test among all of the latest DAWs I could get my hands on. Now, I’ve looked into this in the past and posted my results about it, but there’s new people getting into music production every day, so it’s time to revisit the topic I think. Or as some people like to say, which DAW has the best sounding “Summing Engine”. Every now and then (approximately every 18 minutes) I end up running into a thread discussing which DAW sounds better. Rompiendo el mito de si Logic es mejor que Ableton Live.Īs a lot of people know, I tend to frequent a lot of various music-related forums throughout the day. ![]()
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