Importing audio files

[ozfrog]

Hi,

this may help someone.

I recently recorded a live DVD with my band and the keyboard tracks were heavily overloaded during the recording and needed to be re-done. The people doing the post production work sent me a mix track, plus my original keyboard track so i could re-record my parts.

Fine - on connecting up my gear - MainStage 2 on the MacBook + a Presonus sound card line output to the iMac running Logic, I was more than a little surprised to find all my new keyboard parts were about a tone and a half flat!

After considerable head scratching and a torrent of emails, here's the gist of it.

The original recordings were done at 48KHz and Logic automatically imports at 41,2KHz. No warning - that's the default setting so go with it or start the maddening menu search where the input sampling rate can be set. And NO it's not in Prefs/Audio.

 

So beware - if you're importing audio that's not your very own recorded stuff, be aware that you may have to check the sample rate it was recorded at and match that to the input sample rate.

 

Happy days. 8)

[David Nahmani]

The original recordings were done at 48KHz and Logic automatically imports at 41,2KHz.

I suppose you meant 44.1kHz?

 

In order for your project to playback audio files at the correct speed/pitch, you have to select the correct sample rate playback for your project first under Settings > Audio.

 

The first time you try to import a file that doesn't have the same sample rate as the one I've chosen in my settings, Logic warns me and offers to either change my sample rate setting for the current project (Yes) or to convert the file I'm importing to the project's sample rate (No).

 

 

After that I'm on my own, and it's my responsibility to check the sample rates of the files I use in the Bin, and to make sure they all have the same sample rate as the project.

[ozfrog]

Thanks for the reply - I didn't get the warning