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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V7 #13

GUS Musician's Digest       Sat, 14 May 94 13:08 PST     Volume 7: Issue  13  

Today's Topics:
                    Ultratracker and 16bit samples

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Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 21:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Ultratracker and 16bit samples

I have a I made with some samples I took myself on a plain GUS, at 22Khz 8
bit resolution.  Sounds fine, but I would like to make it better.  So I
borrowed a friend's Toshiba 3401b, and used cddaread to pull off 16 bit
44Khz mono grabs directly from the CD.  Now I want to incorporate them
into the first version of the song, but Ultra seems to have a problem with
them.  The higher resolution version sound terribly distorted.  I have
made them signed, mono 16 bit samples.  One of them had to be resampled
down to 32Khz in order to be less than 256K.  The others are 89K in size
at 16 bit 44Khz.  The very large one is now 253K at 16 bit 32Khz.  Its
lower resolution counterpart is 8 bit 16Khz mono, and it plays just fine
(at 87K in size).  So it can't be that the samples are >64K, since I
already know Ultra can handle that.

I did increase the volume using Goldwave on the higher res samples, but
lowering it did not help.

I have toggled the 8/16 bit switch for these samples, and have tried
reversing the sign, nothing has helped.  They sound great played with
Playfile.  None of the other trackers I have tried will handle a >64K
sample, so I have nothing else to compare with.  Some other samples at 16
bit res sound fine, I used them in the same song, but they are not nearly
so large.

Anybody have an idea what is wrong?

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