Jerry Tubb wrote on Wed, 28 March 2007 01:20 |
Barry Hufker wrote on Tue, 27 March 2007 23:35 | It is painfully slow but I start it and have it cook overnight so it's ready in the morning.
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Hey Barry,
I agree Peak 5 (level 5) SRC sounds really good, but the fact that is sooo sloooow totally disqualifies it for me. I usually don't have the luxury of leaving it to crunch overnight, usually the producer wants to take a ref disc that same day.
Its amazing to me that Peaks' SRC takes that long on a dual processor G5... what, 20 minutes per song? There's some serious number crunchin' power happening with a G5, leads me to wonder what's up with Peak, does anything else including Weiss take that long?
Anyway I'm still a fan of BarbaBatch, don't hear any grainy-ness happening there, although a slight but acceptable color change is evident.
Found Matt Gs' comments interesting regarding Sample Manager 3.
JT
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Hey JT:
I'm testing Weiss Saracon and I just timed a 96k to 44.1 k conversion of a SD2 split file at 61.2 MB each side and it took 5.5 minutes.
I usually convert one file while working on another so this is not a problem and of course a 48 to 44.1 conversion averages out at less than 2 min.
I checked Saracon vs PTs vs. Wave Editor and be honest, I didn't find a really clear cut winner in every case. In fact, one song would seem to sound "better" with one SRC and then a different song sounded "better" with another SRC.
Unfortunately I don't have the time for really exhaustive testing, nor the interest really, b/c they were generally so close. My tests were a couple of months ago but I think I liked the Saracon more times than PTs but surprisingly, PTs was very close (and a lot faster)! Unfortunately my demo of Wave Editor expired before I could use it as much but I still have the same conclusion in that it wasn't remarkably better or worse.
Wave Editor also seemed to have more steps than PTs or Saracon which makes it a little more cumbersome to use but its also seems more flexible and I noticed that it has more functions that might come in handy.
Daniel Weiss said he is considering having a lower priced version without the DSD (I hope he doesn't mind me mentioned this) and if this is the case, I'll probably go with Saracon for my software SRC.